rokitna
2020-9-12 03:24:40

Lol, putting my clown nose on, I’ve actually been thinking of language features like that as weakly typed for a while, regardless of the rest of the language:

https://twitter.com/rocketnia/status/676880615455625217\|https://twitter.com/rocketnia/status/676880615455625217

I don’t often bring it up. Mostly it’s been an idea I entertain in my own mind, as a way to process my own frustration over the vague and judgmental ways people use the term. Basically, I made the same joke you just did, but embraced it. And I dunno, I feel like this actually helped me get on the same page as more of the people who were using the term (like the person in this article who’s implying C# is a little bit weakly typed), but it doesn’t change that the connotations and vagueness of term are frustrating.