Clojure/Conj 2017 – Opening Keynote by Rich Hickey [video]
No one in this thread is yet talking about the content of this talk, which I think is interesting. Rich is doubling down on dynamic typing. As the world is gradually moving to more statically-typed languages (Rust, Swift, Go, Elm, Purescript, Typescript are all popular tools that come to mind), Clojure remains in the embrace of dynamic typing, and this talk is an interesting look at the perspective of why that is, and adds perhaps a little bit to the debate between static and dynamic typing.<p>I admire Rich a lot, but I also admire John Carmack, and it is apropos that yesterday another comment was shared on another post here [0] about <i>his</i> opinions on static typing, and how in just a few years (his talk was in 2013), the industry as a whole has made considerable changes in its opinions of static typing; according to his talk, in 2013 most of the industry was still not convinced of the benefits of static typing.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15460604" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15460604</a>