10: Type Safety Roundtable with Ryan Tablada and Matt Machuga

In this episode, Adam talks with Ryan Tablada and Matt Machuga about the philosophical differences between programming in a statically typed language vs. a dynamically typed language.

Show Notes

They talk about things like explicit interfaces vs. duck typing, function calling vs. message passing, and some of the recent RFCs around optional typing in the PHP community.

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• J#
• Hack
• DHH's "Why Ruby?" Keynote at RubyConf X
• Design by Contract in Eiffel
• Type Hinting in PHP
• PHP RFC: Scalar Type Hints
• PHP RFC: Sum Types
• Erie Day of Code
• EmberGrep
• Hired

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