Use R you fucking monkeys

  • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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    2 months ago

    Is there anything especially good that's strongly typed? Spark is fine, but I'm one of 5 people I've ever encountered who's actually using the typed dataset APIs or leaning into type safety as a feature, and doing so puts me at odds with basically every book anyone learning Spark is likely to read.

    • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      Python is strongly typed. It's also dynamically typed

      That's different than weak typing

      • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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        2 months ago

        The qualifier "especially good" excludes Python. Static typing would be preferred, but not required.

          • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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            2 months ago

            I'm already writing Scala, Kotlin feels like it'd be a lateral or even negative move. 😄 I'd be curious to see what some nontrivial Spark in Kotlin looks like, though.