Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [audio]

Re:Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [a... by crdoconnor on Thursday February 23, 2017 @09:59AM (#13714327)

>The rise of Python at the expense of safer, typed, faster, more principled languages makes me very sad for the state of our industry.

Stronger type systems don't come for free. They come at the expense of slower prototyping.

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Re:Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [a... by willtim on Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:15AM (#13715055)

I respectively disagree. I use types for rapid prototyping. Often I write out the type signatures first, type-check the high-level compositions and then fill in the implementations later.

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