257m@lemmy.ml to Programming@programming.dev · 1 year agoWhat are your programming hot takes?message-squaremessage-square626fedilinkarrow-up1264arrow-down110
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minus-squareTrustingZebra@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoHow is dynamic typinf faster? Is typing num = 1 instead of int num = 1 really that much faster?
minus-squareGaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoIt’s not just the physical typing It’s the fact that you can be extremely flexible with data structures and variables E.g. you can have a list of strings and ints in Python but not java
minus-squaremorrowind@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThis is why union types are great (also sum types are similar I think, never used those)
How is dynamic typinf faster? Is typing
num = 1instead ofint num = 1really that much faster?It’s not just the physical typing
It’s the fact that you can be extremely flexible with data structures and variables
E.g. you can have a list of strings and ints in Python but not java
This is why union types are great (also sum types are similar I think, never used those)