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Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript (i.postimg.cc)

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[–] noli@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago

The typical arguments for a dynamic typed language are that it takes less time to write something in it.

The benefits of static typed languages are that your development environment can be a lot smarter (ironically enough leading to faster development speed) and several classes of bugs being unable to happen. In a statically typed language, the IDE can detect if you're trying to call a function that takes a number but you're actually providing a string. In this case the IDE will let you know and you can immediately fix silly mistakes like that.