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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by joshuamorton on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:30PM (#15990654)
It appears you missed my point. I can't think of a 100kloc f# or Haskell codebase, so even if they were 10x as terse as python, which they aren't, python comes out ahead. If they're so much better, why don't people use them?
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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by kod on Saturday December 23, 2017 @12:18PM (#15995084)
I can think of 100kloc Scala codebases, e.g. Kafka.

People do use ML family languages, and they are better. There are plenty of non-technical reasons they aren't as widespread as dynamic languages or shitty static languages.

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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by joshuamorton on Saturday December 23, 2017 @01:32PM (#15995493)
Right, but Scala is different from Haskell or f#. It doesn't use the same kind of type inference (hm) as classical ml derivatives.
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