Episode 19 - Type Systems and Type Checking

Episode 19 - Type Systems and Type Checking

From Programming by Minko Gechev

June 16, 2020 · 6 min

About this episode

This episode covers the basics of type systems and their enforcement strategies.

In this episode, we'll look at the very basics of type systems and their enforcement. We'll discuss strongly and weakly typed languages. After that, we'll dig into different enforcement strategies - runtime with dynamic typing and compile-time with static typing.

Topics covered

  • type systems
  • type checking
  • strongly typed languages
  • weakly typed languages
  • dynamic typing
  • static typing

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