There are massive numbers of devs who would never even think of trying to code in a dynamically-typed language, even though the big players all have gradual typing. They don't know what they're missing.
I have no problem with dynamically-typed languages, my main problem with Python is the significant whitespace. I really do not like it. I can deal with everything else in Python, or any other programming language, but significant whitespace is what kills it for me.
Even after writing tons of python the whitespace is still the reason why I never reach for it by default.
Today the IDEs got much better, but I still can’t see the significant whitespace as anything than downside. With brackets I can indent, but also have automatic indenting succeed every single time.
Having gotten back into Python for a project after some time away, I found the solution (for me) is to automatically fix the whitespace every time I run the code.
I just have a line in my Justfile that does this. Probably would be better to format on save but I use different editors and haven’t gotten around to it.
Still doesn’t fix the creeping doubts about everything in a language conceived by people who made that whitespace call, but it removes the specific pain point.
do you mean requirement of whitespace or how much space that takes up? Because you can change how many spaces python needs for its indentation to get some reduction in whitespace
I've been writing code for 40+ years. I know how to set up my editor, thanks.
If you copy and paste some Python code and it isn't indented properly, it breaks the python program. It's the stupidest thing I've seen in any language, including javascript (which isn't as stupid as many claim it is).
