On Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 7:21:21 PM UTC-5, Gregory Ewing wrote: > My take on the idea of making Python less dynamic in order > to improve speed is that you'll end up with a language > that, while it may superficially resemble Python, doesn't > really feel like Python. Boo is an example of that. It has > a Python-like syntax, but to get any speed advantage you > need to add static type delarations, and then it feels more > like programming in C# than Python. At that point, you > wonder whether you might just be better off writing your > program in C# to begin with.
Which is exactly why i keep warning about how dangerous these type-hints are. If these dirty little type-hint syntaxes start propagating in the wild, soon, we'll all be writing code that _looks_ like C, but executes like _python_. At that point, what would be the advantage of writing Python code? I don't write Python code because i like how slow it executes, no, i write Python code because (first and foremost) i like how clean the syntax is; because i like the flexibility of interpreted languages; because i enjoy rapid development; because i like introspection; because i like batteries included. These are the fundamental attributes that make Python so special. Sure, there are a few other high level interpreted languages out there (Ruby springs to mind) but none of them are as enjoyable (to me, and many others here) as Python. Even with all it's warts, this lanague has (at least historically), been very special to me. I beginning to think that the gaining interest in creating derived python languages is a direct result of the type- hints fiasco. But the community fissure began when Py3000 was released. Too many voices in this community are being ignored. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
