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

Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by c22 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:11PM (#15985217)

The first language I learned (after Applesoft BASIC) was C. I wrote C for a long time. About 6 years ago I picked up Python. Today I find it much easier and much more pleasant to spin up a new idea in Python, to the point that it is my default choice for new projects with fuzzily defined goals. None of my ideas have become companies, but I could totally see just sticking with Python even past the point that it became unwieldy.

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by tigershark on Friday December 22, 2017 @12:26AM (#15985449)

Between c and Python there is an ocean of languages...

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by walrus1066 on Friday December 22, 2017 @06:12AM (#15986657)

I'm with the OP on this, I've experience with Java, C#, Python & C++.

I'm a big fan of rapid prototyping with Python to map out problem domains, and once the domain has been mapped properly, rewriting in a statically typed language if necessary.

Python is much better for prototyping than the other langs I've used. Because the syntax is almost pseudocode, and the duck-typing makes a lot of design patterns and boilerplate obsolete, so I can dedicate my headspace to the problem at hand.

Right tool for the right job, as they say.

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by c22 on Friday December 22, 2017 @01:39AM (#15985674)

True enough. I've dabbled in several. These are just the two I happen to have the most experience in and the ones that seemed relevant to my point.

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