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Re:Pyrefly by krick on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @11:55AM (#43834371)
I know I shouldn't get into this thread, but I'm extremely curious: what did you expect should have happened? I mean, literally, what do you mean by "just work", what work did you expect a type checker to perform if not to show you errors?
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Re:Pyrefly by koakuma-chan on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @12:11PM (#43834580)
I expected a reasonable amount of reasonable errors, not 60k+ errors most of which are import-error, even though the code runs fine.
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Re:Pyrefly by fastasucan on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @04:12PM (#43837502)
Its the fault of the tool that the codebase had lots of errors?
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Re:Pyrefly by koakuma-chan on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @04:28PM (#43837669)
I would say it's the fault of the ecosystem. Hopefully it will get better as libraries adopt type hints.
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