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Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by kodablah on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:45PM (#15249793)
I think there are two forms of readability: localized readability and whole-program readability. Python only satisfies the former. Your statement about readability being one of the most important qualities I believe is true, but more for whole-program readability in my experience.
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Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by JoeMalt on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:12PM (#15250107)
Agreed. Working on a large Python codebase, I find myself greatly missing Java's improved static analysis, even for simple things like "find the definition of this function".
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Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by andybak on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:22PM (#15250205)
If you aren't ideologically opposed to the use of an IDE then PyCharm solves this for the vast majority of cases. I get ~90% of the editor functionality I'd get in a statically typed language in PyCharm. Automated refactors and all that jazz...
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