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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I feel so strongly about this issue that I'm breaking ingroup rules on liking every reply in a thread
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daniel can sense ingroup weakness hence great trolling picks
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Nothing that anybody is saying here makes sense to me but also I know people are obsessed with type so it doesn't surprise me
Programming languages are about how they make you feel. For me, dynamic types = anxiety, good static types = confidence, calm.
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all programming languages just make me feel frustration
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The usefulness of types becomes very noticeable in large projects where you have a lot of engineers working on a codebase.
With types, you can just write code without having to figure out what different functions you didn't write expect as arguments or what they return.
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