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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.
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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.
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