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A D&D alignment chart meme for programming languages' type systems. The "Good/Evil" axis is "Strongly/Weakly Typed". The "Lawful/Chaotic" axis is "Statically/Dynamically Typed". Lawful Good: Ada, Rust Neutral Good: Kotlin, TypeScript (strict: true) Chaotic Good: Scheme, Smalltalk Lawful Neutral: Fortran (F90 & later), Java True Neutral: PHP, Python (with type hints) Chaotic Neutral: Python, Ruby Lawful Evil: C, FORTRAN (F77 & earlier) Neutral Evil: Visual Basic, TypeScript Chaotic Evil: BASIC (classic), JavaScript

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A D&D alignment chart meme for programming languages' type systems. The "Good/Evil" axis is "Strongly/Weakly Typed". The "Lawful/Chaotic" axis is "Statically/Dynamically Typed". Lawful Good: Ada, Rust Neutral Good: Kotlin, TypeScript (strict: true) Chaotic Good: Scheme, Smalltalk Lawful Neutral: Fortran (F90 & later), Java True Neutral: PHP, Python (with type hints) Chaotic Neutral: Python, Ruby Lawful Evil: C, FORTRAN (F77 & earlier) Neutral Evil: Visual Basic, TypeScript Chaotic Evil: BASIC (classic), JavaScript
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Chris Bohn (docbohn@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 21:57:55 JST Chris Bohn

Did I spend far too much time on this table just to get to the punchline at the bottom for something I'll spend perhaps 20 seconds on during lecture?
Yes, yes I did.
Do I regret it?
No, I do not.
#ProgrammingLanguages #TypeSystems #Assembly #Programming #ComputerScience

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