Why Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2022. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph Richard Feldman - Functional Programming Language Expert & Author of “Elm in Action” @rtfeldman RESOURCES Richard ABSTRACT The 1990s birthed #Python, #Ruby, #PHP, and #JavaScript - dynamic programming languages that went on to be extremely popular. Today, each has a widely used static type-checker: #mypy, #Sorbet, #Hack, and #TypeScript. By #RedMonk rankings, the most popular languages released in the past 15 years have been TypeScript, Go, #Kotlin, #Swift, #Dart, and #Rust - all statically typed. If a generation of popular dynamically typed languages grew out of dissatisfaction with 1990s-era statically typed languages, what changed? Is it a matter of fashion, and the pendulum will soon swing back to favoring dynamic again? Is gradual typing the future, because it promises the best of both worlds? If so, then why aren’t Go, Kotlin, Swift, or Rust gradually typed? (Dart was originally, and later changed to static!) Why has static typing made such a comeback in the past decade? And what does it mean for the future? This talk dives into all of these questions, and more! [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:00 Programming language rankings for Jan. 2022 02:04 What happened? - Outline 02:32 What made dynamic typing get big? 11:39 What changed? 38:22 What does this mean for the future? 49:36 Prediction 49:55 Summary 51:38 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Richard Feldman • Elm in Action • Tim McNamara • Rust in Action • Cristian Salcescu • Functional Programming in JavaScript • #StaticTyping #DynamicTyping #RichardFeldman #FunctionalProgramming #Golang #Elmlang #Programming #ProgrammingLanguage #SoftwareEngineering Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.