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Gm #Nostr

I am a Python boi and try to stay close to major developments in the language and ecosystem (e.g. asyncio, Pandas 2.0, Pydantic 2.0).

I would like to learn a strongly typed language but the Rust learning curve is scary… and the recent Rust Foundation drama is a huge turn off.

What should I learn, even if I stick to writing mostly Python? Go? Zig? OCaml/Haskell/Elixir? Just learn Rust?

I do mostly ETL pipelines and other data processing, but also interested in systems, networking, general backend stuff.

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jimbocoin 🃏 2y ago

One option would be TypeScript. It has a number of compiler options that allow you to increase the type strictness incrementally.

Also, Python now has type hinting. Not sure how you enable it, but you can require function arguments to have types specified.

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MF_HODL 2y ago

Thanks, but not interested in getting involved with any form of JavaScript lol.

Modern Python with something like Pydantic gets you better run time type safety than TypeScript, but it’s still not built into the language itself. I use Python type hinting in all my code now, just because my linter yells at me otherwise 😂

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jimbocoin 🃏 2y ago

> Thanks, but not interested in getting involved with any form of JavaScript lol.

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MF_HODL 2y ago

LOL

I’ve done a bit of JS and HTML, definitely not for me. I’m mostly just a data wrangler, but looking to learn other areas of “backend”