Typesafe
Typesafe is a term used in computing to describe systems, languages, or code that enforce type safety. A typesafe environment prevents certain classes of errors by ensuring that values are only used in operations appropriate to their declared types. By catching type mistakes early—often at compile time—it reduces runtime failures such as applying arithmetic to non-numeric data or invoking methods on incompatible objects.
Type safety is provided by a type system, which can be static, dynamic, or gradual. Static type
In practice, “typesafe” is often associated with languages in the Java and C family and with newer
Historically, Typesafe, Inc. was the company formed to commercialize the Scala language; in 2015 it rebranded