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		thinkpad20 on Dec 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Guido van Rossum: The Theory of Type Hinting for P... Julia doesn't have gradual typing, to my knowledge. As far as I know it doesn't do any static type checking. I wish it did!

jfe on Dec 20, 2014 [–]

i still have much to learn about language design, but i believe julia has gradual typing. it uses type annotations for the purposes of multiple dispatch (which is awesome, btw) and optimization.

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