> Types, abstractions, tests, versions, state machines, immutability, formal analysis, all these are tools available to us in unfamiliar terrain. Use them to taste.
How did people program in Lisp for decades? I like types and such, and have even gone so far as to write Python like it's Rust. But in the end I realized dynamic languages have an appeal for a reason, and by using types all over the place, I was not getting the benefits of a dynamic language like Python.
When context is mostly static, dynamic languages shine. Context could be, for example, the structure of the directory. If I want to read a file and I know that the file exists, throwing a bunch of type checks about file reading operation is just overkill and slows down the development.
How did people program in Lisp for decades? I like types and such, and have even gone so far as to write Python like it's Rust. But in the end I realized dynamic languages have an appeal for a reason, and by using types all over the place, I was not getting the benefits of a dynamic language like Python.
When context is mostly static, dynamic languages shine. Context could be, for example, the structure of the directory. If I want to read a file and I know that the file exists, throwing a bunch of type checks about file reading operation is just overkill and slows down the development.