Programming term. Variables in programming languages can hold different types of data, such as whole numbers, floating point numbers or strings of characters ("text"). Untyped languages figure out on the fly what can and cannot be done to the content of a variable, while typed languages strictly keep track of the type of content (not the value) to catch bugs and improve performance, for example.

[–] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago

Ah! Thank you for the explanation. That makes much more sense now.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Very concise explanation!

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Any untyped languages that don't care what is in the variable, assumes you know what your doing, and YOLOs it?

[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Np necessarily. Usually errors are detected at runtime and reported as such. So you will see where your program failed, but it usually crashes nonetjeless. Keep in mind that crashes are usually better than continuing some undefined behavior.