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0 pointskortex4y ago0 comments

> However, the top post approaches religious dogma.

I don't deny it. Join the cult of Static Python. We have cookies! And lower stress levels!

I usually wrap that spiel with my caveat "this depends greatly on your neurotype, style, environment, and other things." I have ADHD and my brain struggles with keeping bits of state in memory, so having to remember the type of every variable without my IDE tracking it for me is a huge performance drain.

However, I would contend even if your neurotype supported that mental workflow... it isn't actually better. Humans on average can handle 7 +/- 2 "pieces" of information in focus. Why spend any of your precious half-dozen pieces of salient consciousness on something a machine is really good at doing?

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mixmastamyk4y ago

Because it adds a lot of work that many projects don't need. Read wpietri's post on how candidates who write static get half as much accomplished in an interview.

Also since the tools are immature and bolted on afterward in Python, I think it's even a bit worse than it would be in something decent like C#.

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