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Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by meowface on Saturday October 03, 2020 @09:11PM (#24675910)
I love Python, and it's my first and most-used language, but I definitely agree. I want something that takes the best parts of Python, is compatible with most existing Python code, and has a much better tooling ecosystem and better options for static typing.

Spending a bit of time with Rust's tooling, static analysis, and "if it compiles it's pretty likely to work" (at least way more so than with Python) definitely emphasizes a lot of Python's flaws.

Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by kortex on Saturday October 03, 2020 @11:50PM (#24676415)
Have you tried writing python as if types were mandatory? It takes a lot of discipline but it's a totally different beast with strict mypy checking.
Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by meowface on Monday October 05, 2020 @05:28PM (#24692255)
Yes, I've started to more in the past few weeks, and I've enabled stricter Pylance checking in VS Code. It's definitely giving me more Rust-like productivity and reliability improvements.