On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 9:50 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 06:35:40 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 6:23 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> >> wrote: >>> Jim Lee <jle...@gmail.com>: >>>> IMHO, trying to shoehorn static type checking on top of a dynamically >>>> typed language shows that the wrong language was chosen for the job. >>> >>> I'm also saddened by the type hinting initiative. When you try to be >>> best for everybody, you end up being best for nobody. The niche Python >>> has successfully occupied is huge. Why risk it all by trying to take >>> the whole cake? >> >> Did you complain when function annotations were introduced back in 2006? >> >> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/ >> >> That's TWELVE YEARS ago. Over in the Node.js world, that's ... uhh, >> actually that's longer ago than Node.js has even been around. Another >> trendy language is Go... oh wait, that wasn't around in 2006 either. > > Yes, but in fairness, people have abandoned Python by the handful for Go > and Javascript. At the rate people are abandoning Python, in another 10 > or 20 years Python will have dropped to the second most popular language: > > http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html >
Oh, I forgot about that. That's why Guido is busily stuffing it with every feature he possibly can, in the hope that - once Python runs out of popularity - it'll at least... actually, you know what, I got nothing. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list