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Comment by librasteve

3 days ago

why not just go with a language that has gradual typing built in - eg raku

because there is a ton of existing python code that people find a lot of value in, and that no one wants to abandon. the return on investment for making python better is insanely higher than that on porting hundreds of millions of lines of code to another language.

  • that’s why raku has modules like

      Inline::Python 
      Inline::Perl5
    

    and strong FFI (Foreign Function Interface) chops

    certainly I see the economic sense in continuing with Python, but for some folks there’s a limit to how much lipstick you want on your pig