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the myth of type safety (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Zangoose@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Anders429@programming.dev 55 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I've seen this same thing happen with Python's type hints. Turns out giving an "escape hatch" type for devs who have no clue what the type actually is leads to a lot of useless type hints.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

/me laughs in void*

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Laughs in Object

[–] RandomDevOpsDude@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago

Laughs in object

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