Python programming is drowning in red tape

Re:Python programming is drowning in red tape by slightwinder on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:43AM (#22875725)

> On a syntax level simply because it adds types, and one of the joys of writing a dynamic language is that you don't have types filling so much of your code.

Then good that you don't have to do that. Type hinting in python is optional and it's unlikely that this will ever change.

> I have no idea why we're trying to force a static typing mindset onto a dynamic language.

Because python ist not a toy-language anymore. It's used for big projects too, and for them features like this are very neccessary.

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Re:Python programming is drowning in red tape by Barrin92 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:21PM (#22880423)

>Because python ist not a toy-language anymore. It's used for big projects too, and for them features like this are very neccessary.

I've worked on multi-million line dynamic codebases in settings that require robustness and correctness (telecommunications/Erlang) and it's an absolute ridiculous idea that one needs type checking to build industry standard codebases and architecture.

The Java/C++ paradigm is not the only software paradigm to built correct software.

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