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 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

By typed they mean declairing a type for your variables.

In some languages, variables needs to be told what kind of data they can hold. That's it's type. For instance a number without decimals would be an integer type. While text might be a string type or a list of character types.

Other languages don't require types and sometimes don't even support them. They will just infer the type from the data that's in the variable.

If you see Elon Musk please explain this to him.

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