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Re:A Failed Experiment with Python Type Annotations by rat9988 on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:34PM (#20159737)
> Choose the right tool for the job, no?

The thing is, static typing is never the job by itself.

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Re:A Failed Experiment with Python Type Annotations by ggregoire on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @06:18PM (#20160011)
"job" doesn't refer to static typing but the project you are working on.

- script of 2,000 LOC to clean data => dynamic typing is fine => Python

- web service of 1,000,000 LOC => static typing seems a better choice => Rust, Go, Kotlin, Scala, Swift, C#, Java…

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Re:A Failed Experiment with Python Type Annotations by cwyers on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @08:18PM (#20160709)
A lot of people don't set out to write a million LOC web service, they build a smaller web service and it grows.
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Re:A Failed Experiment with Python Type Annotations by JeremyBanks on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @08:55PM (#20160857)
Quite. My company is using Go for most new projects, but we have five years of Python code that we can't justify rewriting any time soon. We've been able to add annotations incrementally instead.
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