Yes the compiler/interpreter can figure it out on the fly, that's what we mean by untyped languages. And as stated both have their merits and their faults.

Elon doesn't know what the words mean and just chimes in with his AI future BS.

[–] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Untyped as in written? Or is this programming term I'm not familiar with?

[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Programming term. Variables in programming languages can hold different types of data, such as whole numbers, floating point numbers or strings of characters ("text"). Untyped languages figure out on the fly what can and cannot be done to the content of a variable, while typed languages strictly keep track of the type of content (not the value) to catch bugs and improve performance, for example.

[–] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago

Ah! Thank you for the explanation. That makes much more sense now.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Very concise explanation!

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any untyped languages that don't care what is in the variable, assumes you know what your doing, and YOLOs it?

[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Np necessarily. Usually errors are detected at runtime and reported as such. So you will see where your program failed, but it usually crashes nonetjeless. Keep in mind that crashes are usually better than continuing some undefined behavior.

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