Statically Typed Vs Dynamically Typed Programming languages

Caroline Mwasigala — Wed, 03 May 2023 10:18:36 +0000

The juiciness of any concept lies in its roots.Everything Evolves and types are not exempt. Simply put types are classification or characterization of things.

In this article we are going to briefly expound the concept of types and the categorization of languages based on types. I will use C# in the code block examples.

Variable and Type checking are crucial concepts when it comes to understanding the difference between statically typed and dynamically typed programming languages.

What is a variable?

A variable is a name used to represent a memory location for information storage. The best analogy for this is a cup. A cup is a rounded container that holds substance. substance represent data, container represents memory location and the word cup represents a variable name.

What is type checking?

Type checking is a system of checking if the assigned data contains the expected data type. The system is called Type System.

The difference between the two concepts boils down to variable declaration. For statically typed languages, the enforcement is on explicit declaration of variables with their types. Type checking happens during the compilation time, in turn this ensures code optimization.

int score=5;
string name="Myspexg";
double amount = 12.3;

While dynamically typed languages allows implicit variable declaration.It gives programmer flexibility but it’s error prone.Type checking usually happens at the runtime

var score=5;
var name="Myspexg";
var amount=12.3;

Examples of Dynamically typed language is JavaScript, PHP etc. Examples of statically typed language is C,Java etc

Lot of programming languages are hybrid meaning they are both statically and dynamically typed. i.e C#, Python etc

Counting zero's sucks!!

Caroline Mwasigala — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 17:57:11 +0000

Let's get real, it sucks when things don't behave the way they should. User-friendliness is underrated when it comes to form input fields.

When providing a user with an input field to write a number and it doesn't get formatted as how normally numbers are, it gives the user another task of counting zero's, honestly it sucks 😠.

Tried searching for a solution online but couldn't find what I wanted 😩, that's when I decided to solve it myself and help others by compiling the solution into a library and place it in a place where anyone can find it.

Github link
NPM link

Demo

How did I do it ?!

Regular Expression

Why reinvent the wheel?! 😦
Regards,

DEV Community: Caroline Mwasigala

Statically Typed Vs Dynamically Typed Programming languages

Counting zero's sucks!!

Demo

How did I do it ?!