Not to mention that for a decade and more, HN was full of "dynamic languages are the best! Who needs types! Dynamic FTW!" comments and articles. It wasn't fully accurate, and neither is the about-face to "Types FTW! Typing is the best thing ever!".
I have come to enjoy the more self-documenting nature of static typing (in PHP of all languages). Yesterday I worked on a legacy project with no typing, and to determine what was passed to an untyped method (with no documentation) required running the interactive debugger and inspecting what was passed in different scenarios...
I have come to enjoy the more self-documenting nature of static typing (in PHP of all languages). Yesterday I worked on a legacy project with no typing, and to determine what was passed to an untyped method (with no documentation) required running the interactive debugger and inspecting what was passed in different scenarios...