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by the_af 1523 days ago
Agreed, but it also clashes with the world view that brought us Typescript, which I also find better than Python's type hinting.

In addition, it makes it harder for me to argue in favor of type annotations with my coworkers. My coworkers come from neither world, static or dynamic; they are learning the ropes. And they just can't see the point. I'm confident I would convince them were this a statically typed language, but with Python I'm lost.
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uranusjr 1523 days ago
The TypeScript comparison is on an entirely different axis though, the compiled <-> interpreted one. One of the reasons languages go with the type hinting route is actually to avoid a separate compilation step like TypeScript. That may be totally fine for you (again coming from a statically typed language where this is more or less required), but it’s a hill many are willing to die on. It’s all tradeoffs and design decisions.
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the_af 1521 days ago
Agreed it's a different axis, that's why I said "also clashes". I of course think Typescript's choice in this tradeoff was the better one, even though I'm not particularly in love with Typescript either.

At some point everything in proglang is preferences and design decisions, but for me, there are better and worse tradeoffs to make.

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