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

Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by oblio on Thursday December 21, 2017 @08:01PM (#15984428)

You're assuming that the original developers would have been just as productive in a statically typed language as they were Python.

Big assumption.

Both because they might have known Python already and also because Python is quite a bit more newbie-friendly, concise and expressive than the mainstream statically typed languages.

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by tjoff on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:38AM (#15985860)

Obviously what the programmers knew to start with is of importance. But that's no property of the language (well, sure, being easy to pick up increases the risk).

But no, ignoring that it is not a big assumption really. The benefits of static typing comes pretty quickly, especially if there are more than one programmer.

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