Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint...
by CGamesPlay on Thursday December 21, 2017 @06:23PM
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Sorry, I guess I jumped to the conclusion that you profiled in production because you had a mandatory type checker which would cause runtime errors if invalid types were passed. Let me try another question. Do you think that a project like MonkeyType would substantially aid adding flow annotations to a JavaScript project? If so, why is the value to the Python ecosystem higher than the value to the Flow/JavaScript ecosystem (i.e. why doesn't it exist for JS)?
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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint...
by jw- on Thursday December 21, 2017 @07:20PM
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It's already been flirted with in JS I believe [1], though not specifically for Flow. The problem is that it falls down in the higher order case, which happens quite alot in JS. Also, I don't think JS has a mechanism like sys.setprofile that deals with alot of the pain points.
[1] https://medium.com/fhinkel/runtime-type-information-for-java...