dcreager

If you run a type checker like ty or pyright they're not decorative — you'll get clear diagnostics for that particular example [1], and any other type errors you might have. You can set up CI so that e.g. blocks PRs from being merged, just like any other test failure.

If you mean types not being checked at runtime, the consensus is that most users don't want to pay the cost of the checks every time the program is run. It's more cost-effective to do those checks at development/test/CI time using a type checker, as described above. But if you _do_ want that, you can opt in to that using something like beartype [2].

(And as an aside, there _is_ a verbose mode: if you add `-vv` you'll get DEBUG-level log messages printing out the name of each file as we start to check it, and you can set TY_MAX_PARALLELISM=1 in your env to make it very clear which file is causing the hang. That's how we debug these kinds of issues when they're reported to us.)

And shameless self-promotion, if you're interested in how these kinds of languages compare with more traditional named-based languages, with more theoretical constructs like the lambda calculus and combinatory logic, and with gadgets like a PyBadge — well you're in luck! I gave a talk about exactly that at the final Strange Loop [2].

A common theme is that Forth-likes are very easy to implement on constrained hardware. I have a Strange Loop talk a couple of years ago where I go into this at the end, calling out uxn from the Hundred Rabbits folks. You might consider that more "hobbyist" than "production", but people are deriving real joy making apps and games in that ecosystem.