Comment by throwaway2037

    if you want you language to apply a standard discipline, then use Python

Wow, I hear this stuff all the time about Python. It is a myth. I have worked on multiple 500K+ line Python projects. All of them decay into a total mess due to weak typing. You can type hint until you are blue in the face, but it is never enough if it isn't guaranteed by a compiler or at runtime. So many times, I am 29-levels deep in a call stack, looking at a local variable that is incorrect typed, thinking to myself: "Oh fuck, this again." Yes, I will get 8,000 downvotes for that comment, but it does not detract from my personal experience. It takes super human talent to fight that trend. Have you seen what Dropbox did with that Finnish dude who got a PhD literally studying how to make Python more type safe with static analysis? Jesus fuckin' Christ: Amazing work, but it would be much easier to pick a different language for something that will grow to millions of lines of code! And, sadly, I write that sentence as an unashamed Python fan-boi. I truly wish there was some kind of "strict-er typed" Python mode -- or something.