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Re:Our journey to type checking 4M lines of Python by siempreb on Sunday September 08, 2019 @08:34AM (#20910166)
> The worst, buggiest, least maintainable code I've ever dealt with was a 500ish line (heavily tested!) untyped Python file at my last job. Caused more trouble than all the Java and C++ and Go combined.

That cannot be because of missing types. If you make just 500 lines python unmaintainable you're just a terrible programmer! In it's core it cannot be a type problem. And that is my main point here; there is a hype going on in the dynamic languages to add types, as if it solves everything. IMHO it's not that simple.

To avoid unnecessary explanation about the value of static typing; I am not against, I'm doing c++ and it serves me well.

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Re:Our journey to type checking 4M lines of Python by jdm2212 on Sunday September 08, 2019 @11:37AM (#20911151)
The code in question was somewhat experimental, didn't have a clear owner and was modified by a number of people fairly frequently. There would've been much less room for sloppiness and shortcuts (let me just stick this extra field on this object) in Java, C++ or Go.
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