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Re:Why type hinting sucks (/r/Python) by flohofwoe on Saturday February 11, 2023 @06:32AM (#34751396)
I don't think people select Python for it's performance ;)

But the type-checking could be a command line parameter, used only during development.

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Re:Why type hinting sucks (/r/Python) by mfgs on Saturday February 11, 2023 @06:36AM (#34751418)
It already can be used for development, IDEs such as PyCharm perform quite effective live type checking based on type hints.
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Re:Why type hinting sucks (/r/Python) by Jasper_ on Saturday February 11, 2023 @10:18AM (#34753056)
Note that PyCharm and mypy's semantics differ in some key ways:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-54411/Type-checkers-....

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-24834/Support-strict...

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