{"id":200,"date":"2009-02-08T10:10:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T15:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=200"},"modified":"2009-02-08T22:25:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T03:25:31","slug":"gradual-typing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Gradual Typing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Siek is doing some great work on gradual typing, and it may get incorporated into Jython. Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.jvmlangsummit.com\/pdf\/28_Siek_gradual.pdf\">presentation<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=21835070615692553\">video<\/a>. A similar idea is Gilad Bracha&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pico.vub.ac.be\/~wdmeuter\/RDL04\/papers\/Bracha.pdf\">Pluggable Types<\/a>. JavaScript 2 had planned to do gradual typing, though it is unclear if that will survive the collapse of the project. <\/p>\n<p>It seems I usually have negative things to say here, so I wanted to note an example of something positive. Jeremy&#8217;s work is Computer Science that is imminently relevant to practicing programmers. I think gradual types are an inevitable feature of future programming languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Siek is doing some great work on gradual typing, and it may get incorporated into Jython. Here is a presentation, and a video. A similar idea is Gilad Bracha&#8217;s Pluggable Types. JavaScript 2 had planned to do gradual typing, though it is unclear if that will survive the collapse of the project. It seems &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=200\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gradual Typing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfEnU-3e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}