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Can someone help me understand this joke? Strongly typed languages generally have way better IDE support so this doesn’t make much sense to me at all
The joke is taking “strongly typed” literally- by applying too much “strength” (force) physically on the keys and breaking the keyboards
Hey guys I think I might be stupid. Good lord, wow.
Can someone explain the term? I’ve been in IT for 25 years, but haven’t written anything but Powershell.
When programming, data is stored in variables. In a weakly typed language you define a variable and you can put anything in it. Numbers, text, whatever. In a strongly typed language when you define a variable you also have to define what it can take. If you define a variable that can hold numbers, it can only hold numbers and never text or anything else.
Weak typing makes code easier to write and more flexible while strong typing makes code more secure and harder to accidentally break. It’s mostly a preference thing in the end.
