Browun

I believe in this context they’re referring to an Individual Contributor. Pulling the definition from indeed.com: > a professional without management duties and responsibilities who contributes to a company independently to support its mission and goals. While they typically report to someone within the company, individual contributors aren't responsible for managing anyone except for themselves.

Not sure why the initial tone of your response is quite so dismissive. But I do work with Python on a daily basis, even though this shouldn't be the deciding factor on the validity of any point. Discuss the point, not the individual, if it's so easy to disprove. It seems that you're talking about poorly documented code, not how type checks effect this. Python code should have at least docstrings for types, or a scrawl with pen and paper describing this. If not, this is a failing of the project, and it's codebase. Not something you should rely on an outside tool to fix.

Totally get that, and agree that this is an aspect if Python that is awesome for iteration on new ideas without many barriers. However, this seems to make the assumptions that when you, as you say, transition to the industrial phase: - MonkeyType will get all of the assumped types correct, which at any scale I doubt. Not because of the ability of the projects contributors, but because they warn about this in their own documentation - If you're doing this at an industrial scale, and you haven't already documented/thought about/understood what these functions are. I'd appreciate that it may help intially, but still runs in to the problem I was discussing above.

What's the benefit of this over simply adding the type annotations directly? I guess this is mostly for those unwilling to understand types? Especially given the admitted limitations of inferring types, such as the add exmaple discussed; this seems to be fixing an anti-pattern problem. As this those who would build a project in Python that would largely benefit from these annotations, would be most suited to just spend the couple of hours needed to truly apply it themselves.

I'm not sure a 4 weeks free trial is a long term work around?

Does anyone have a link for a non-paywalled version?