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Comment by lolinder

People get this way about TypeScript too, and it always perplexes me. These projects are about adding types to untyped languages, and that comes with a few givens:

* Your type system cannot be sound. It's going to have escape hatches and exceptions because that's how dynamic languages roll.

* There will always be constructs that you can't type. See above.

* If your type system is going to usefully type enough of the ecosystem, it will be Turing complete.

All of these things are the trade-offs you make when you set out to layer types on a dynamic language, and they're well worth it to get 99% of the way to type safety in a language that otherwise couldn't scale. Theoretical purity is meaningless if the language isn't useful.

parent lolinder 1 year ago

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