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nine_k on June 16, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Next Step for Generics

(1) This is why you can even ship code written in JS or Python. (2) This is why Typescript and mypy exist.

throwaway894345 on June 16, 2020 [–]

I agree, although my experience with Mypy has been miserable. I’m not sure the costs are less than the gains. Also there are other tradeoffs, like performance and artifact size (numpy and pandas alone are 100mb).

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