Again, the point is you need your engineers to diligent enough to do so. That isn’t always the case. Which is why I talk about checks being part of the standard language build tools.
Humans error. I’ve seen numerous occasions when stuff that should have been added into the tests wasn’t. Even from engineers who are normally thorough. I’ve also seen cases when competent engineers have written test cases that pass when they should have failed. Heck even I’ve done that and I’ve been writing software for 30 years.
The more a languages build tools can catch developer errors, the less you need to rely on developers remembering to check for them and thus the more time developers can focus on the project at hand.
This seems a more institutional issue than something python should take care of for you.
If your devs are pushing code into production that doesn't pass the tests (or they aren't even running the test suite) then you're asking for trouble no matter what language you use.
As much as I love reading 20+ pages of errors c++ likes to spit out when you use a template wrong if I want to do something simple I just reach for python.
> If your devs are pushing code into production that doesn't pass the tests (or they aren't even running the test suite) then you're asking for trouble no matter what language you use.
Clearly that’s not even remotely what I said. But I’ve posted the same thing twice already. I see no point posting it a 3rd time.
My understanding of your argument is it's too much of a burden for devs to run a static type checker manually so the language should force you to run it as part of the compilation process.
Sure, yeah, if you want to ensure type safety then use a type safe language...argument over.
...unless you want to do something like duck punch some function into someone else's library and you really don't want to rearchitech how the whole thing works because of that one special case which just doesn't quite work.
Yeah I agree dynamic languages have their place too. I’m actually extremely agnostic about languages.
That said, I’ve been on projects debugging code that has had functions overridden like that and it wasn’t fun. Sometimes people can get too clever for their own good. But you can have that problem regardless of the language
