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

Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by vasilipupkin on Thursday December 21, 2017 @04:27PM (#15982934)

two things come to mind: maybe those startups would die at a slower rate if their code was comprehensible to begin with ? but leaving that aside, for companies where survival is not an issue then, doesn't this indicate that using a dynamically typed language is not great?

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by panopticon on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:14PM (#15983336)

I would be interested in seeing the number of startups that fail due to technical debt. My instinct is that most startups fail for business reasons (no clear need, not enough/right sales, poor management, bad pitch, solving the wrong problem, etc).

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by depressedpanda on Thursday December 21, 2017 @07:37PM (#15984291)

Well, in the case of Instagram, this just shows that Python was a great choice.

They went with a dynamically typed language, were successful, the language they chose added an optional type hinting system, and they wrote a tool that would automatically type hint their code in order to reap many of the benefits of a static type system.

I think that the amount of man hours that went into writing the tool is negligible, so it's a net win for Instagram.

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