In a statically typed language I get why this is a bad idea. If every method returned Object (the common parent all classes inherit from) then you and the compiler have no idea what you're dealing ...

Dynamic object interoperability — the DLR enables interoperability between statically and dynamically typed languages. The DLR includes a collection of types — classes and interfaces in the ...

The argument is that, if you are using a dynamically (but strongly) typed, higher-level language, you’ll typically need to write less code.

A statically typed language is an example of the latter; you get in the compiler itself a device which looks for type errors and informs you of them before you check the broken code change into ...

While a dynamic language will usually take some kind of performance and memory hit when running on top of VMs that were designed for statically-typed languages, work on the DLR and the MLVM, as ...

Conversely, statically typed languages provide more of a safety net, but often at the cost of quick iteration. We believed there had to be a sweet spot. Thus, Hack was born.

Getting Started Combine Static and Dynamic Types Late binding can bring great flexibility to Visual Basic programmers, but it has a serious downside in eliminating static-type checking and ...

C# and Java are often considered examples of statically typed languages, while Python, Ruby and JavaScript are examples of dynamically typed languages. Generally speaking, dynamic languages don't ...

The statically typed language developed by JetBrains initially for the Java Virtual Machine, reached the top 50 in the index this month for the first time, ranking 43rd, although it has a rating ...