Re:Making Python 3 more attractive
by keyneus on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @01:28PM
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Anecdotal data to agree with type annotations:
We have a fairly large Python codebase here. I've been wanting to move away from Python for a whole host of reasons, a top one being that it's dynamically typed. However, when mypy was released, that was enough of a reason to port from Python2 to Python3. Now we have a mostly-annotated codebase, and I'm a lot happier.
We'll probably move away from Python eventually (I still don't think it's an especially good language, and type checking with it will never be as useful as with a language where it's built in and required), but it's not as pressing of a concern.
I think type checking turns Python into a bearable language.
We have a fairly large Python codebase here. I've been wanting to move away from Python for a whole host of reasons, a top one being that it's dynamically typed. However, when mypy was released, that was enough of a reason to port from Python2 to Python3. Now we have a mostly-annotated codebase, and I'm a lot happier.
We'll probably move away from Python eventually (I still don't think it's an especially good language, and type checking with it will never be as useful as with a language where it's built in and required), but it's not as pressing of a concern.
I think type checking turns Python into a bearable language.