I'm so traumatized by Python that every third line of code I write is a type check
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python was the first language I learned and most of what I code and I never understood this deep fear of type errors, it's pretty rarely an issue in practice
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I find that most problems are type errors. I like static types because I can be lazy and code by numbers.
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interesting. we must have very different approaches to coding.
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Yes. I like to make tons of very narrow purpose-specific types to prevent as many errors as possible.
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huh. I don't think I've ever made a custom type.
Namedtuples are the most natural entry point for creating custom types imo. Super pythonic + expressive way to, say, have a function return a meaningful struct
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I normally use dataclasses with frozen=True but I thought to use a class for the inheritance and to have zero imports.
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