Comment by z3t4

Having spent my entire career, 15+ years, in "weakly typed" or whatever you call it, languages, such as basic, vbScript and JavaScript I don't get this type hype. In "unsafe" languages that have overflows I get it will help to make it less unsafe, but in high level languages such as JavaScript why do you even need static (not sure I'm using the right vocabulary) typing !? Such as HypeScript, err I mean TypeScipt. Is there an entire field of programmers out there that get bugs because they are mixing numbers and strings !? I also did that a lot as a beginner in JavaScript as the plus sign is used both as concatenation and addition. I read a study here on HN a while ago (that probably was sponsored by $M) that stated using TypeScript would prevent most of the bugs found on GitHub, but of course there where no examples of where type annotation would have helped. So what's with this type frenzy ?