[breakerbox]

I love HN so much for threads like this.

It is seriously one of the best places in the world to grab some popcorn, hangout, and watch beginners, students, CEO’s, experts, consultants, etc rant and rave about company X or programming language Y.

Genuinely love the spirit of HN, even if people say it’s different for the worse now.

I assume there aren’t many places on the internet for nerds to publicly hang out with experts and executives in their field.

On another note, many of these arguments talk about typing. Why say a language must be static or dynamic, etc, when you can achieve both. Making a C# MVP is much more verbose than python. Maintaining an untyped 3 million LOC monolith, is likely harder than C#.

Everyone here is working on pretty different projects and codebases, so why argue for one?

Anyone have gripes about mypy, or experience successfully using it(or an alternative)?

[m463]

One of the biggest reasons I detest stack overflow.

I would see really interesting questions shut down with:

"this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion."

I wondered why they couldn't be inclusive and possibly just move the questions elsewhere but let them live.

[Avamander]

It's basically the culture on SO to take what were meant as guidelines as rules. Trying to question why should the rules forbid x or y will often end up on tautological "because it's the rule", I've seen it multiple times.