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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) · 11w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqgqn4mglfftd6292303jp2r060qwy69mpgdfprlumsuhf68wft27svfzgz0 That’s a fairly superficial analysis and doesn’t really look at the properties t...
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q...

The blog post in question does not look at Smalltalk or Objective-C at all, did you even read it at all? Heck, neither are even mentioned. Instead, it looks at the actual research.

And yes: the documentation effect is powerful and is actually well supported by the research. Unlike the safety effect, which is not just not supported, but actually consistently contradicted by the research.

Static typing is a convenience feature, not a safety feature.
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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) · 10w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq0cg7txfs7vf3t603zmvelerwaa52sw2qvycz25eu559s4skcgwxq5g9smr nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqgqn4mglfftd6292303jp2r060qwy69mpgdfprlumsuhf68wft27svfzgz0 I read the post. I have also previously read the papers. They both dis...