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0 pointsotikik11y ago0 comments

> weak is a factual statement

I disagree. "Weakly typed" does not even have a precise definition.

Defining "strongly typed" as "the way Haskell does it" and anything less as "weakly typed" is an opinion.

I agree that Haskell types are stronger than Go. That does not does not mean that Go is "weakly typed". It's "less strongly typed than Haskell".

> The parent clearly expressed that he wants a static strong type system.

I was not contesting that, only the classification of Go as "weakly typed".

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DCKing11y ago

I'm not saying Go is a weakly typed language. I'm just saying that the statement "Go is a weakly typed language" is a factual statement that may be true or false. You were wrong in positing the claims "weakly typed" and "overcomplicated" as if they are somehow equally valid, because one is a factual claim and the other is an opinion.

In the most conventional definitions, Go is a strongly typed language. So this factual statement appears to be false.

As always, there is some confusion in this topic about dynamic typing vs static typing. There seems to be plenty of dynamic typing in Go, which in itself does not make its type system weak.

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