Unplanned Obsolescence Home Blog Talks About RSS October 12, 2025 Unplanned Obsolescence is a blog is about writing maintainable, long-lasting software. It also frequently touts—or is, at the very least, not inherently hostile to—writing software in dynamically-typed programming languages. These two positions are somewhat at odds. Static Typing is Better For Maintainability Dynamically-typed languages encode less information. That’s a problem for the person reading the code and trying to figure ...