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   Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 06:49:27 JST Tek say resist

   It’s totally OK not to like Python, of course. Everyone can hold any opinion they wish.

   But when people unprompted and loudly insist on things like “Python is untyped”, I reserve the opinion that they're kind of an idiot.

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     cuan_knaggs (mensrea@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 06:54:58 JST cuan_knaggs

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     @tek folk seem to confuse dynamically typed with untyped a fair bit

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 06:56:12 JST Tek say resist

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     • cuan_knaggs

     @mensrea Yep. Comeback: “if weak and dynamic are the same, why do they have 2 words for it?”

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     Json Doh (jdoe@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 06:59:16 JST Json Doh

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     @tek if they have the right for an opinion then I have the right to judge their opinion

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:04:36 JST Tek say resist

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     • Json Doh

     @jdoe “My opinion is your opinion is stupid.”

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     cuan_knaggs (mensrea@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:26:51 JST cuan_knaggs

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     @tek but then again c# devs didn't understand javascript so hard that we now have typescript

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:29:03 JST Tek say resist

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     • cuan_knaggs

     @mensrea Fair point. (Although I do really appreciate TS.)

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     cuan_knaggs (mensrea@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:54:47 JST cuan_knaggs

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     @tek what I keep coming to with ts is, if you're reaching for ts you likely need a different language

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:57:02 JST Tek say resist

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     • cuan_knaggs

     @mensrea Perhaps. I've been working at a TS shop for a while, now, and I confess that I'm fonder of it now than I would've expected. It's fine. Not my favorite, but I don't hate it. And I would personally prefer to write TS than raw JS any day of the week.

     OTOH, I wrote my last project in Python, then used GPT to convert it to TS with minimal changes. Turns out I'm a big fan of transpiling. 😀

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 11:58:37 JST Tek say resist

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     • Jeff Forcier
     • neoluddite

     @neoluddite @bitprophet It’s all about having the right keyboard.

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     neoluddite (neoluddite@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 11:58:38 JST neoluddite

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     • Jeff Forcier

     @tek @bitprophet Almost all programming errors are caused by incorrect typing.

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 13:48:59 JST Tek say resist

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     • Tin Tvrtković

     @tintvrtkovic Imaginary! It’s untyped! Or weakly typed! Or something! 🙄

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     Tin Tvrtković (tintvrtkovic@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 13:49:00 JST Tin Tvrtković

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     @tek if python is untyped, what's this? https://typing.readthedocs.io/en/latest/spec/ 😵💫😵💫