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“It’s not that hard” (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

whether or not a compiler can understand a type at compile time

In many / most(?) compiled languages that's because the type is specified at compile time. With interpreted languages that's often not the case, and in that case determining the type can be extremely hard.

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