[Python-ideas] Re: Should Python enforce Type-checking in the future?

2021-12-10 Thread deavid
Well, this has a lot of strong opinions already! I didn't expect less :-) I'm not sure how to answer so many thoughts without making this super-long. I'll try to reply in general. I agree that a compile-time python makes no sense, it would be a different language and we would lose 90% of what Pyt

[Python-ideas] Should Python enforce Type-checking in the future?

2021-12-09 Thread deavid
Hi, I would like to hear the opinion of Python's community on enforcing types in the future for the language. I've been using Python as my main language for everything for around 10 years, until I started moving to Rust 2 years ago; one of the main factors was types. Just before moving to Rust I s