Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself

Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by gxs on Thursday December 21, 2017 @04:23PM (#15982902)

This is exactly it.

People are running a business, not writing an a treatise on code maintenance and hygiene.

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by blub on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:58AM (#15986157)

Ok, then the business men among us should learn their lesson, that agility matters.

The software developers among us should also learn their lesson: don't build large-scale software in dynamic programming languages unless you can afford to spend time later adding a static type system on top.

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by walrus1066 on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:09AM (#15986412)

I'd think the business men at Instagram have been very happy with the agility of development, that got them to a $2.8 billion revenue p/a company. More than enough to cover the engineering effort to help improve the maintainability of the code.

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by yen223 on Friday December 22, 2017 @09:50AM (#15987780)

Considering the company that bought them runs on PHP, perhaps we should all ditch Python altogether.

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by gxs on Friday December 22, 2017 @12:35PM (#15989248)

I agree - there's just always a condescending tone in the way people question the technical practices in hindsight of companies that are successful.

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