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by phailhaus 1129 days ago
What's the advantage of those "ergonomics" if you have to memorize all the quirks? With a language like Typescript, all those operations become explicit instead of implicit, letting you take full advantage of your IDE with autocomplete, documentation, and compile-time warnings. Python sacrifices all of those just to save a few keystrokes.
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int_19h 1125 days ago
What is implicit about either feature, and what difference do they make from the IDE perspective assuming equivalent type annotations in both languages?
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phailhaus 1125 days ago
"Assuming equivalent type annotations" is the problem. Can't do it with Python, full stop. If we could, we wouldn't be having this conversation at all! It can't catch any mistakes because its type system is simply not expressive enough. You have to hold the type information in your head and make sure you slice and multiply correctly.
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