Projects I Wouldn't Use Python For in 2026
4 points by abnercoimbre
4 points by abnercoimbre
From the actual presentation:
It turns out that type systems are useful
Who could have foreseen?
This snapback had been a long time coming.
When Python first rose to prominence, gradual types were a footnote in academic literature and nobody took ML-style type systems seriously.
C++98 and Java were pretty much the final word on what a static type system could be and they kinda sucked to work with. Python, PHP, and Ruby didn't ask you to put in the same kind of busywork. And of course, V8 and Electron then happened.
So people wrote tons and tons of code in dynamically typed programming languages.
Today, we have better languages with better type systems and we're rediscovering just how nice it is when your editor points out bugs before you've even saved the file.
And it's great to see these facts penetrate / percolate through dynamic communities (yes Python but also Ruby with Sorbet and so on.)