Dynamic vs Statically typed languages for websites
- by Bradford
Wanted to hear what others thought about this statement:
I’ll contrast that with building a
website. When rendering web pages,
often you have very many components
interacting on a web page. You have
buttons over here and little widgets
over there and there are dozens of
them on a webpage, as well as possibly
dozens or hundreds of web pages on
your website that are all dynamic.
With a system with a really large
surface area like that, using a
statically typed language is actually
quite inflexible. I would find it
painful probably to program in Scala
and render a web page with it, when I
want to interactively push around
buttons and what-not. If the whole
system has to be coherent, like the
whole system has to type check just to
be able to move a button around, I
think that can be really inflexible.
Source: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/kallen-scala-twitter
