ZLeviathan's comments

On: Ask HN: What are good resources to learn system de...

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mark

On: Ask HN: What is the best online resource to learn ...

[ZLeviathan]

This's what I want to know

On: If TypeScript is so great, how come all notable Re...

[ZLeviathan]

because Facebook doesn't want M wins?

On: China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mis...

[ZLeviathan]

wow, as a Chinese myself, I agree on everything you said. Well put!

[ripitrust → ZLeviathan]

Thanks

On: Flask 0.11 Released

[ZLeviathan]

moving too slow...

On: Node.js v6.0 Released

[ZLeviathan]

interesting...considering JavaScript itself is a shaky language.

On: Ask HN: Is Python dying?

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You must be joking!

On: Python 3.5 type hinting in PyCharm 5

[ZLeviathan]

Finally! without the additional type information, it's almost impossible to do any meaningful refactoring...

On: The End of Dynamic Languages

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Not true...

On: The End of Dynamic Languages

[ZLeviathan]

Totally agreed, using dynamic languages, all became a guessing game, everyone is guessing, the IDE is guessing, the programmer is guessing what's inside this variable?

[lispm → ZLeviathan]

Strange. I'm just asking the Lisp system:

    CL-USER 1 > (class-of *standard-output*)
    #<STANDARD-CLASS EDITOR::RUBBER-STREAM 40E035A2E3>

Oh, the class of the value of

    *standard-output*

is EDITOR:RUBBER-STREAM... From there I can find the source, find the applicable methods, the slots, the super classes...

[scotty79 → ZLeviathan]

With declared types programmer is still guessing the meaning and IDE doesn't care anymore.

I think that's the reason dynamic languages work because guessing types is easy for people. Guessing meaning is the hard part.