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the myth of type safety (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] Anders429 55 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

/me laughs in void*

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Laughs in Object

[–] RandomDevOpsDude 7 points 1 year ago

Laughs in object

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