Why Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters cite it as a clear account of the trade-offs between static and dynamic typing and why the industry is swinging back to types.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

GOTO Conferences

Topic

static vs dynamic typing

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I think the suitable followup to this is the Richard Feldman talk, "Why Static Typing Came Back."[1] It gives the major reasons why one would prefer one over the other, and makes the case that static types can provide most of the actual benefits of …

• I saw a talk that touched on this recently: [VIDEO] He explains that dynamically-typed languages like Python, Ruby, and JS became popular in the 90s because they offered a fast feedback loop for website building, and they didn't need an IDE or compilers, which were …

• Yeah, Rich Feldman has a good talk on this, entitled Why Static Typing Came Back[1]. It makes a good argument that static typing can recover most of the advantages traditionally accounted to dynamic typing. Rapid iteration you can get from incremental compilers, being concise you …