Re: [OT] Interesting answer to why dynamic languages are hard for large code bases

[David Demelier <demelier.david@...>]

Le 01/07/2014 15:08, Andrew Starks a écrit :
> http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/221615/why-do-dynamic-languages-make-it-more-difficult-to-maintain-large-codebases
>
> Told from the perspective of JavaScript, but most of it applies to 
> Lua, as well.
>
> -Andrew

For me, one of the only thing I do agree is that the lack of static 
analysis can lead to bugs. In Lua if I type:

    print(unexistant)

The code will obviously load as there are no syntax error, but will fail 
at the execution since unexistant is not a defined variable. In C++, you 
will actually have an error at the compilation. For that issue, you can 
only check at runtime and personally, it's the only problem I have when 
I develop irccd [1] plugins.

Cheers,
David.

[1] http://projects.malikania.fr/irccd