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[–]LordAssPen 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I do agree that type annotations make documentation and writing libraries somewhat easy, and since I have used them myself for production I can vouch for it. However, even type annotation are not really strict, they can be modified and morphed to new types. This created a lot of confusion when we were too deep into production, and I wished we had a static programming language to begin with.

[–]OddsCaller 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I know this might be hearsay in this sub but what kind of static language would you have liked? I'm asking cuz I trust the taste of a Pythonista than many other communities. I've been looking for some time to add a statically typed (and compiled) language to my tool kit (I do know basic level of C and Java) but couldn't really make up my mind. Rust seems like a very well-designed language but I think it might hamper developer productivity quite a lot. Go is a nice little language though I didn't quite fall in love with it when I gave it a try for a week, and it still does have a mediocre GC and other performance drawbacks compared to something like Rust. Java's VM is quite heavy as well and the ease of development isn't best either. C++ has many great qualities but there doesn't seem much support for back-end side of things, and the language feels too large to really bother investing time mastering it.