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> I find "dynamic during runtime + static during development" to be a highly potent combination Except you miss out on massive performance gains and your software runs 10x slower because of runtime type-checking. It's actually the worst of both worlds.
And yet machine code is basically untyped and fully dynamic. The world of computing is a strange place.
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In fairness, if you are choosing a language based on language features, you are not going to choose Python either.
Why not? The ecosystem might as well be a language feature, and Python has one of the strongest for a lot of areas, not just ML. Also, what is Python lacking that other languages have? It's expressive and fast to develop, and with type hints and linters, reasonably robust. My main complaint is performance, but I'll take the speed to write most days.
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I find "dynamic during runtime + static during development" to be a highly potent combination because it largely prevents dumb programming mistakes and enables rich IDE hints while still allowing for enough magic to build beautiful interfaces. While they are usually a great benefit and easy enough to so, sometimes getting types just right can be more of an effort than it's worth - it's beautiful that in those cases y…
> I find "dynamic during runtime + static during development" to be a highly potent combination Except you miss out on massive performance gains and your software runs 10x slower because of runtime type-checking. It's actually the worst of both worlds.
I work on a monorepo and MyPy and Flake8 was such a PITA at first but after you use it for a while, you really see the value of type checking. Makes unit testing better and the code more robust in general. MyPy is seriously a great tool, especially with pydoc enforcements.
At that point, why not just use Go? It's designed to feel dynamic, provides concurrency primitives out of the box, and it's orders of magnitude faster for most tasks.
Somewhat offtopic, does anyone have a link to a page that describes which extensions/tools I should be using with VSCode to author Python code? Edited to add: when you read various recommendations, they're all discrete and don't have the overall context. e.g. I installed the VSCode suggested extensions, but then read a comment that I should really be using Ruff. OK, that's good, but if I have extensions X, Y, and Z,…
In the age of most projects having animated websites, videos on the homepages, ads for courses and maybe an online conference for launching a new version, I find this use of 2006-era blogspot strangely comforting.
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It is a downgrade in language features, there is always PyPy.
If you don't consider static type and built in concurrency primitives features then ok, at what point does nice to have features outweigh performance gains and the robustness of static typing that directly impacts the quality of the end user experience and the readability of the code to other developers?
I disagree that Go's insistence on verbosity improves readability. Each individual line may simpler, but the larger purpose of the code is obscured in all the "if err != nil" weeds.
My unpopular opinion is that Dart should get a lot more attention. Strong typing with null-safety, compiles to native, batteries included, and nearly as expressive as Python.
In the age of most projects having animated websites, videos on the homepages, ads for courses and maybe an online conference for launching a new version, I find this use of 2006-era blogspot strangely comforting.
Also has what the product actually IS in the header and everything! "Updates about mypy, an optional static type checker for Python"
Somewhat offtopic, does anyone have a link to a page that describes which extensions/tools I should be using with VSCode to author Python code? Edited to add: when you read various recommendations, they're all discrete and don't have the overall context. e.g. I installed the VSCode suggested extensions, but then read a comment that I should really be using Ruff. OK, that's good, but if I have extensions X, Y, and Z,…
the default extension is good enough to begin with. as you are adding more to your project (e.g. black/isort/django), you can naturally find more extensions.