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Turing_Machine on July 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why We Chose Typescript

"They could have succeeded in spite of dynamic typing, not because of it."

Yes, they could have. Evidence for your hypothesis would be the existence of similarly successful companies that used compiled statically-typed languages from the beginning.

Are there any recent ones?

tome on July 1, 2017 [–]

Are you suggesting that there are no similarly successful companies that used Java, C# or C++?

Turing_Machine on July 5, 2017 | [–]

Are you suggesting there are?

I asked for examples. Can you provide one?

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