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This article is among the best argument for using a typed language I’ve yet seen.
This has nothing to do with types. It's more about static guarantees the language gives about module import behavior.
This is yet another example of the divide between wizarding and engineering[1]. When you're a small startup, what matters is the expressiveness of your language, and the ability do do a lot of things very very quickly. Type safety, performance, readability, those things don't matter. You're just a bunch of engineers who know the whole codebase inside out, you're pretty certain of what you're doing. In short, you're w…
Who is starting large-scale new projects in Java in 2019?
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Who is starting large-scale new projects in Java in 2019?
It's a good question. Why would you pick Java over Go or C++?
I'm not a fan of the language, but java has a huge number of developers, a rich mature ecosystem of software and is quite productive (enterprise patterns aside), it's a good sweet spot for most companies.
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I'll give you that in controlled code the use of typed dicts would be a symptom of a code smell, but in less controlled environments where you're dealing with eg. JSON inputs, form inputs, SQL table results and so on … not so. I'm also not onboard the "it's a code smell, it doesn't matter" train. IMO if python adopted the typescript typing syntax we'd all be better for it. I also forgot to mention the atrocious typin…
> but in less controlled environments where you're dealing with eg. JSON inputs, form inputs, SQL table results and so on … not so. I more or less agree with this, but then again, IMO you should be isolating the less controlled code behind a controlled api. And the marginal value of converting `_ConvertQueryResultDictToQueryResult(qr: Dict[str, Any]) -> QueryResult` to something that uses a typeddict instead (which m…
Maybe both should be in the global namespace...
More and more I want someone to create a new language that amounts to a strict subset of Python, with mypy built-in, and is compilable into machine code. Python has by far my favorite syntax, community, and in my experience leads to the greatest productivity. There just happens to be a lot of overly dynamic features, that aren't even used by most, but used just enough to hold back optimization and structural improvem…
I like Python, but I often wonder how many developers use Python because they actually use dynamic language features versus just liking the languages' clean syntax and library ecosystem. I'm surprised languages that offer both REPL (for development) and AOT native compilation (for production), like OCaml, are not more popular. Evidence that syntax matters, I guess. :) mypy and mypyc are interesting but their compile-…
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Who is starting large-scale new projects in Java in 2019?
Countless companies, huge and small -- from Apple and Amazon, to Google and your friendly local startup, plus all the enterprise world that's not a .NET shop... In what parallel universe is not Java immensely popular or not used for green projects?
This is yet another example of the divide between wizarding and engineering[1]. When you're a small startup, what matters is the expressiveness of your language, and the ability do do a lot of things very very quickly. Type safety, performance, readability, those things don't matter. You're just a bunch of engineers who know the whole codebase inside out, you're pretty certain of what you're doing. In short, you're w…
> I wish there was a language that let you move gradually from one end to the other, exactly when you need to. This is precisely what gradually typed languages — like TypeScript, Flow, and typed Pythons — solve! I talked about this on Software Engineering Radio last week: https://www.se-radio.net/2019/10/episode-384-boris-cherny-on... .
You have the madness of thousand of developers flinging code at the universe due to the easiness of browsers, JS, and npm.
This results in great speed, but not great quality.
When your project/company now wants quality, you keep your code but transition to types. (In OSS space, Angular and Yarn projects have both done JS => TS migrations of some form.)
More and more I want someone to create a new language that amounts to a strict subset of Python, with mypy built-in, and is compilable into machine code. Python has by far my favorite syntax, community, and in my experience leads to the greatest productivity. There just happens to be a lot of overly dynamic features, that aren't even used by most, but used just enough to hold back optimization and structural improvem…
I like Python, but I often wonder how many developers use Python because they actually use dynamic language features versus just liking the languages' clean syntax and library ecosystem. I'm surprised languages that offer both REPL (for development) and AOT native compilation (for production), like OCaml, are not more popular. Evidence that syntax matters, I guess. :) mypy and mypyc are interesting but their compile-…
More and more I want someone to create a new language that amounts to a strict subset of Python, with mypy built-in, and is compilable into machine code. Python has by far my favorite syntax, community, and in my experience leads to the greatest productivity. There just happens to be a lot of overly dynamic features, that aren't even used by most, but used just enough to hold back optimization and structural improvem…
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Python has some of my favourite syntax as well but I absolutely hate its annotations. TypeScript got typings right. I think the killer language will be typescript with access to both the python and JavaScript ecosystems. We'll see what that looks like. And of course if something changes the syntax, better anonymous functions will be the absolute first thing I would look for...
> I think the killer language will be typescript with access to both the python and JavaScript ecosystems. We'll see what that looks like. I think this is an extremely good idea. Python is horrible but forced on a huge number of developers because of its ecosystem ... I think a bridging layer from typescript to python could be built in a way similar to swift’s Python Interop — and I don’t think it would require any s…
This is a really interesting perspective to me. Coming from Python circles, I've heard too often how horrible JavaScript is as a language and how it's only used because the web has dictated it. Doing web development, I've used both, and generally am inclined to agree. I know TypeScript add some niceties on top of it, but it still is stuck with JavaScript baggage. My perspective has always been that Python is by far the better language, which is why people have written that eco-system in it despite the fact it doesn't have a built-in monopoly of the browser.