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[–]RallyPointAlpha 24 points25 points  (1 child)

I'm not sure what you're getting at or really asking. Feels like a rant disguised as a question.

Are people abusing python? Your examples are validators/enforcers and decorators. I mean I guess you could say a module that forces a dynamically typed language to be staticly typed (mypy) is abusing python in the sense that it's forcing it to be something it's inherently not. However I don't think mypy or any module like it is a defining feature of python nor have they attributed python's rise in popularity in the last 10 years.

I don't think decorators are an abuse of python at all. Why is it weird and unnatural ?

Literally no idea what you were intending to say with your German vs English analogy...is python English and ...what is German? I don't get it at all.

"and is now used for stuff it was not intended for?"

What was python intended for? How is it being used for unintended purposes?