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Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me by eweise on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:54AM (#31121551)
Why not just use a statically type language? I really don't understand why python is so popular outside of a few specialized areas.
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Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me by Spivak on Friday April 22, 2022 @10:20AM (#31121866)
Because ecosystems are what makes people productive and languages are just a means to access them. Python's ecosystem is absolutely massive and high-quality.
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Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me by eweise on Friday April 22, 2022 @11:35AM (#31122909)
Most popular languages have massive ecosystems. Don't see Python's being a differentiator except for a few specialized areas. In fact, the project I'm on runs on spark wrapped by python libraries, so really its the scala libraries that provide all the heavy lifting.
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Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me by cjalmeida on Friday April 22, 2022 @11:49AM (#31123137)
We use Spark extensively. We also use @pandas_udf to run some part of our Spark pipeline through some Python-only ML libraries.
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Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me by michaelt on Friday April 22, 2022 @10:21AM (#31121888)
Ah, but what if I'm a masochist and I want all the verbosity of a statically typed language with none of the benefits?
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Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me by mbrodersen on Sunday April 24, 2022 @08:19PM (#31149536)
Try F#: Strongly typed but 100% inference of types => best of both worlds.
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Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me by ok123456 on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:56PM (#31126429)
It's basically a lisp with better syntax.
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