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“It’s not that hard” (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 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.