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

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Peter Hickman
<peterhickman386@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Isn't this what strict.lua was designed for?

Not exactly. strict.lua is a runtime checking system, and the article
is discussing static (that is, using only the source code, not any
runtime state) analysis.

/s/ Adam

The poster makes the point that these tools are great, but you have to use them and on large projects, not everyone does and run time checking is usually not baked into the shipping project, so violations can, and do, happen.

-Andrew