Re: Technical Board statement on type hints for Django

2020-04-17 Thread charettes
Thanks for sharing your answer publicly Adam and Markus. Here are the points I brought up in the discussion >From my limited experience with type annotation on a large monolithic code > base that was ported from Python 2 to 3 even gradual typing has been a lot > of trouble for the few benefits

Re: Technical Board statement on type hints for Django

2020-04-17 Thread Markus Holtermann
Thanks for pushing this public, Adam. In the discussion I brought up these points. I've been using static typing in Python for about 1.5 years now. Every now and then it's neat, but often enough I get annoyed by it. Either because I simply don't know how to use the tools at hand correctly or be

Re: Technical Board statement on type hints for Django

2020-04-17 Thread Adam Johnson
So we in the technical board were a bit opaque and had our discussion in private before Carlton posted our summary. Apologies for this. We'll repeat the discussion in the open so you can see our reasoning. On 4 March Carlton prompted for our input. I replied: My experience using types, so far: >