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Re:Adoption of Mypy for Python type checking: 45% already us... by make3 on Sunday March 21, 2021 @01:37PM (#26532200)
One of the first things you learn in theoretical sampling classes is that polls where people self select to participate (like twitter polls) are garbage
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Re:Adoption of Mypy for Python type checking: 45% already us... by sitkack on Monday March 22, 2021 @12:38PM (#26543185)
The results are good, they are just, "of the population that uses twitter" ...

What I would really be interested in, is do library developers use or intend to use mypy? Because if your libs are typed checked and your APIs are well constructed, a lot of that safety will flow to the clients.

Maybe those 40% would love to use it if something was changed or fixed. I think these numbers are frankly amazing, a year from now we reach an inflection point where mypy is used by the majority of some segment of the Python developer ecosystem.

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