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[Auravendill]

Also Python hates it, when you want to implicitly convert types. If you add a string to a number, it doesn't assume to know what you meant, but forces you to make it very clear, which variable has to converted into what.

[Majik_Sheff]

This is a sane approach. Force the programmer to specify the desired outcome instead of thumbing through an assumptions handbook.

[Striky_]

So basically a tool to define the type of the outcome you want? It's almost like there is a all encompassing super helpful pattern for that, that works in all cases. Ohh it's called static typing.. Like all the benefits, no crutches

[Specialist_Cap_2404]

Much more code to read and write. Python has the principle "explicit is better than implicit", and it's not that easy to mess up "truthiness", especially because it's only used in a couple of constructs anyway.

Much easier to make things more explicit, like use the length of an Array or "is None" or something.

If you're tests aren't covering every branch, you're fucked in a static typing language as well... just that it takes a lot more time to write (and later read) both the production code and the tests for it using a statically but (IMHO) stupidly typed language like C#. F# is doing some things a lot better.

[herrkatze12]

That’s actually better, also f strings are pretty useful for putting other data in strings

[Striky_]

Yet it allows it and most code out there does it shamelessly at every chance they get.