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How heavily are type annotations and type checking used in the codebase?

• phyrex 3y ago
  It’s fully typed and nothing can be merged that doesn’t pass the type checker
  • wing-_-nuts 3y ago
    What are the benefits of python with types vs a statically typed language like java, golang, etc?
    • jajajajajajajaj 3y ago
      The main “benefit” is that Instagram is written in Python and always has been. It’s millions of lines of code, you can’t just change it to be Java one day.