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Comment by rowanG077 | Hacker News Reader

Honestly I really don't get people who are obsessed with this. Static vs dynamic? That matters A LOT! Error handling style? Very important. Expression based vs statement based? Now you are talking.

but whether a type is before or after the name of a variable? Come one man.,,

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Your "it's just a matter of taste" just shows a lack of research.

The decision has a lot of important second-order effects, and a lot of people are heavily invested in denying that because they are more familiar with "Type name".

What are these important second-order effects? As far as I know it simply only syntax. There is nothing you can't express semantically in one and not the other.

If you know nothing, maybe don't comment?

Are people "obsessed" with this? As the OP, I'm not. I agree with you that static vs dynamic typing and the other issues you mentioned are more important than this, but that doesn't make smaller details not worth discussing. The little details matter in language design, for code readability, cohesiveness, and so on.

Then I got the wrong impression. I didn't expect someone to write a article about something they don't really care about.

There's a big area between "obsessed with" and "don't really care about"! I clearly care about it and think it's interesting and important, hence writing the article, but I have better things to be obsessed with. I don't think painting things in extreme terms like that is particularly helpful.

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