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

Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by shados on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:41PM (#15983537)

We're getting into a world where languages finally have type systems that dont suck for fast development. This wasn't the case until very recently. And many of the current options only became realistically viable in the last few years (or months!).

We still have to work with the world as it exists. Not as it should be or will be. And even with the crop of modern languages, its often still faster to start with less optimal languages and fix shit in the 1/10 chance you're actually successful.

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by mbid on Thursday December 21, 2017 @06:58PM (#15984033)

What are you talking about? Haskell is 30 years old.

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by rspeer on Thursday December 21, 2017 @08:12PM (#15984494)

You must have missed the part about "the world as it exists" and "fast development" and pretty much the entire point of the post you're replying to.

Haskell remains impractical for many use cases, it is not used much outside of academia, it's not documented to be used outside of academia, and it didn't even have a working package manager until a few years ago.

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by dmitriid on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:14AM (#15988484)

Yeah. And you need 20 language extensions to sit at the top of your every file to do anything useful with it.

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