timfi

In general, I find that compilers, transpilers, etc. are all just "interpreters", which conceptually just boil down to a given input being "re-interpreted" into a new representation. Thus, what we commonly call interpreters re-interpret programs into results, compilers just re-interpret into an executable, transpilers into a different language, etc.

Imho this is a non-issue. Python's max-function isn't limited to numerical values, but can consume iterables of anything with a defined order, i.e., things that implement the appropriate hooks in the Python data model. For such inputs, returning anything but an error (or the optionally provided default value) doesn't make much sense.

Sometimes this may be the case but not so much here. Firstly the mention the version they used and, secondly, OtterTune are a startup based around automatic DB steup/schema optimization founded by folks from CMUs DB group, they most certainly know what they are talking about here.

From my personal experience, David Beazley's Talks/Tutorials on the matter are very enlightening.

Not to nitpick, but do you mean the pattern matching statement when you are talking about "sum types"? Because as far as I'm aware Python doesn't have " proper" algebraic data types.

In situations like this you could use `git stash` instead of completely deleting it.

This may seem like a minor nitpick but it's something that popped out at me: italisizing a font shouldn't add or remove serifs. There is a reason why Unicode defines both sans- and serif versions of italics.