Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me
by jghn on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:18AM
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> make things possible, often just to run it once
This is the largest difference. When there's no expectation of code lasting beyond a very short lifespan, why go through the effort to future proof things, improve maintainability, have better ergonomics, etc?
Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me
by jghn on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:55PM
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Sure. And once you land on something worth keeping, you clean it up then. But between time point 0 and then, a whole lot of code gets written to be run very few times.
This is the largest difference. When there's no expectation of code lasting beyond a very short lifespan, why go through the effort to future proof things, improve maintainability, have better ergonomics, etc?