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therockhead on Aug 7, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why choose a dynamically typed language?

Regarding tooling, Java has been massive investment in this area compared to ruby/python etc which is one of the reasons for it good IDEs.

vladoh on Aug 7, 2010 [–]

This is not the only reason. Sometimes you just can't do it with a dynamic language. For example it is impossible for the IDE to help you with auto complete int this case:

def some_function(arg1, arg2) arg1.

The IDE won't show you a list with possible functions because arg1 can be everything.

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