Why are IOC containers unnecessary with dynamic languages

Question

Someone on the Herding Code podcast No. 68, http://herdingcode.com/herding-code-68-new-year-shenanigans/, stated that IOC containers had no place with Python or Javascript,

Answer 1

IoC provides a mechanism to break the coupling you get when an object calls 'new' on another class.

It's naive view on IoC. Usually IoC also solves:

• dependency resolving
• automatic component lookup and initialization (if you use 'require' with IoC, there's something wrong)
• works not only with singletons but also with dynamic scope
• 99.9% of time it's invisible for developer
• eliminates need of app.config

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