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What I can't reconcile with myself is, if I'm going to add type hinting in Python, why not use a language where my efforts of adding type hints result in perfor
by totalperspectiv 7y ago
What I can't reconcile with myself is, if I'm going to add type hinting in Python, why not use a language where my efforts of adding type hints result in performance gains? I get why it's nice for a team, but it seems like a lot of work for half the potential benefit of a typed language.
- j88439h84 7y agoI think that sort of thing is coming, with e.g. `mypyc` that compiles typed Python into C.
- mixmastamyk 7y agoCython can. However, machine performance doesn’t matter a lot of the time.