Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself
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Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself
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Re: Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself
#2This sounds similar to Dropbox's PyAnnotate -- Guido van Rossum writes about it here: http://mypy-lang.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/dropbox-releases-pya...
Would be interesting to see how MonkeyType and PyAnnotate compare.
Re: Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself
#3I wonder how this compares to PyAnnotate: http://mypy-lang.blogspot.ca/2017/11/dropbox-releases-pyanno...
Re: Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself
#4"At Instagram we have hundreds of engineers working on well over a million lines of Python 3."
It always amazes me that some of the most popular products around are built with the worst technology choices. And now they had to build their own static type checker, which slows down random samples of real users, just to shore up the language's weaknesses? Outstanding.
Re: Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself
#5Interestingly, I made a similar tool for php some time ago. It was recently revived and is now in active development to bring it up to speed with recent developments in the language.
Re: Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself
#6Yet another hacky solution to address one of the biggest Python’s flaws. Why not switch to Java instead?
Re: Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself
#7"At Instagram we have hundreds of engineers working on well over a million lines of Python 3." It always amazes me that some of the most popular products around are built with the worst technology choices. And now they had to build their own static type checker, which slows down random samples of real users, just to shore up the language's weaknesses? Outstanding.
If lots of successful projects use what you consider the “worst” technology, perhaps the problem is with your perception rather than the technology?
Re: Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself
#8"At Instagram we have hundreds of engineers working on well over a million lines of Python 3." It always amazes me that some of the most popular products around are built with the worst technology choices. And now they had to build their own static type checker, which slows down random samples of real users, just to shore up the language's weaknesses? Outstanding.
If lots of successful projects use what you consider the “worst” technology, perhaps the problem is with your perception rather than the technology?
No the person has a point. Often the weakness of the tech stack are not known ahead of time. Or what is considered a weakness is not a weakness when the choices are initially made. Most developers if they had to do stuff over again would make different choices in one way or another. Also later in the game if you ever get there, when you have capital then certain problems that were caused by the choices made can be resolved a different way... as is the case here.
Re: Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself
#9"At Instagram we have hundreds of engineers working on well over a million lines of Python 3." It always amazes me that some of the most popular products around are built with the worst technology choices. And now they had to build their own static type checker, which slows down random samples of real users, just to shore up the language's weaknesses? Outstanding.
If lots of successful projects use what you consider the “worst” technology, perhaps the problem is with your perception rather than the technology?
Those people believe that the right choice is assembly unless you can write directly in hex /s
Re: Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself
#10Yet another hacky solution to address one of the biggest Python’s flaws. Why not switch to Java instead?
Because the product would never have been released given the same constraints on developer time x count x qualifications