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Python has better libraries and faster turnaround. It would be handy if you could write something without using type hints as a quick prototype, and then add th

Python has better libraries and faster turnaround. It would be handy if you could write something without using type hints as a quick prototype, and then add them in for a performant releasable product. It would also help with distribution of python code (distribute the binary), which isn't as strong as python's other features.

bamboozled 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder if people who say this have tried something like Go? The way I think about it is like this, if you want to really just hack something together, why do you care about static typing? If you're building a serious larger code base, you then might want static typing, so then why not use a statically typed language?
- adsharma 4y ago
  Because python is #2 on the most used languages list, has great tooling, IDE support, has been around for 30+ years. It's been used to build serious large scale projects. The idea is that you can get great runtime performance by transpiling. This is how Facebook worked till 2013-2014 (php -> C++ transpiler). It's unfortunate that google abandoned the grumpy project. But many good alternatives around.
  - bamboozled 4y ago
    There are reasons it's #2 on that list, because there's a lot of shit python code out there. Not all of it is Instagram (Django). Probably the most atrocious code I've ever seen has been PHP followed by Python. I use Python personally, I just don't think it's a good choice if you really want a statically typed language...because it's not statically typed.
- LionTamer 4y ago
  Go looks very promising, particularly for web services / networking oriented programs. I don’t have much experience / knowledge about Go, does it have a comparable ability to write the kind of expressive, elegant code that Python can with its list/dict comprehensions, operator overloading, generators, etc.

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Python has better libraries and faster turnaround. It would be handy if you could write something without using type hints as a quick prototype, and then add th

by coderenegade 4y ago

bamboozled 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder if people who say this have tried something like Go? The way I think about it is like this, if you want to really just hack something together, why do you care about static typing? If you're building a serious larger code base, you then might want static typing, so then why not use a statically typed language?
- adsharma 4y ago
  Because python is #2 on the most used languages list, has great tooling, IDE support, has been around for 30+ years. It's been used to build serious large scale projects. The idea is that you can get great runtime performance by transpiling. This is how Facebook worked till 2013-2014 (php -> C++ transpiler). It's unfortunate that google abandoned the grumpy project. But many good alternatives around.
  - bamboozled 4y ago
    There are reasons it's #2 on that list, because there's a lot of shit python code out there. Not all of it is Instagram (Django). Probably the most atrocious code I've ever seen has been PHP followed by Python. I use Python personally, I just don't think it's a good choice if you really want a statically typed language...because it's not statically typed.
- LionTamer 4y ago
  Go looks very promising, particularly for web services / networking oriented programs. I don’t have much experience / knowledge about Go, does it have a comparable ability to write the kind of expressive, elegant code that Python can with its list/dict comprehensions, operator overloading, generators, etc.