also I just realized that Brazil did NOT make a programming language entirely in Spanish and call it “Si” and that my professor was making a joke about C… god damn it

this post is probably too nieche but I feel like Lemmy is nerdy enough that enough people will get it lol

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
    2·
    10 hours ago

    I hate on it mainly for its lack of static typing.
    I tried building a HomeAssistant add-on in python, and it was not a good experience. Idk what IDE python devs usually use but VSCode did not provide much assistance.

    • cooligula@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      You can in fact statically type in Python. For example, defining variables:

      six: int = 6
hello_world: str = "Hello World!"

      Or defining functions:

      def foo(x: int) -> int:
    return x**2

      If you only want to use static Python, you can use the mypy static checker:

      # Install mypy if you don’t have it
pip install mypy

# Run the checker on the file (e.g., example.py)
mypy example.py
      • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org
        2·
        36 minutes ago

        That’s just a fancy way of commenting on the intended types, no static typing though.

        Python will happily execute:

        six: int = 6
six = "Hello World!"
      • Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        38 minutes ago

        What you’re describing is type hints, it’s syntactic sugar and not used at all by the interpreter.

        For example, this is a “legal” statement:

        foo: int = "bar"

        Your IDE and linter will complain, but the interpreter just chops the hints off when compiling, and it’s left with foo = "bar"

      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
        1·
        9 hours ago

        I was using that syntax, but nothing seemed to be checking it. Running an external app to get static checking done isn’t great, presumably there are extensions for common IDEs?

        But the poor vscode developer experience went beyond that. I attribute it to dynamic typing because most of my frustration was with the IDE’s inability to tell me the type of a given variable, and what functions/properties were accessable on it.

        I hope it’d be better on an IDE made specifically for python, although idk how many extensions I’d have to give up for it, and things like devcontainers.

    • buttnugget@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 hours ago

      I am currently taking a Python class and we are using PyCharm I’m not a developer, so I don’t know if it’s good yet.