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Statically typed languages are those in which you would need to specify the type of an object at the time when you define it. Examples of statically typed languages include C#, VB, and C++. On the ...

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Large codebases are more difficult to maintain when they are written in dynamic languages. At least that's what Yevgeniy Brikman, lead developer bringing the Play Framework to LinkedIn says in a video ...

The latest State of JavaScript survey confirms findings from previous editions: Developers like and want static typing for the super-popular programming language. What's more, they're more likely to ...

Mypy, a code-linting project created to allow static type checking in Python, has been improved to benefit larger, more complex projects and speed up parsing. One of Python‘s big attractions is its ...

How would you like to program like this? You can with Fortress, a new general-purpose statically typed language being developed by Guy Steele's Programming Language Research Group at Sun. Fortress ...