What Jamie Brandon thinks about software performance

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Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.

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22 Apr 2026

Our readingLayering a static type system atop a dynamic one, capable of proving the dynamic checks redundant, combines the flexibility of dynamic typing with the performance of static typing.

Their wordsThe dynamic type system provides flexibility and easy meta-programming, while the static type system removes the overhead in most of your code.

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