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Comment by jerrygenser

19 hours ago

Basedpyright is not rust but it's a fork of pyright with added features that are otherwise locked in vscode

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f311a  19 hours ago

It's written in Typescript, which is a super weird choice.

  • wiseowise  16 hours ago

    Wasn’t pyright made specifically for VSCode? That would explain TS.

    • f311a  16 hours ago

      Yes, but why they did not write it in a compiled language? Pyright is pretty slow in large code bases and takes a lot of RAM. Javascript can be faster than python in some cases, but Python is so easily extendable with C,C++, Cython, Rust. They could use Python with one of the compiled language.

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jon-wood  18 hours ago

I'm sorry, I can't take seriously any piece of software which decided to prefix the previous version's name with "based". I'm aware this is a me problem.

  • wiseowise  16 hours ago

    Definitely this. I commend author of BPyright, but clown (?) avatar, unknown identity of maintainer, and name of the fork rub me off wrong way.

  • cruffle_duffle  17 hours ago

    Hah. I love the name. It implies that whatever the original “pyright” was doing wasn’t keepin’ it real. This new version, it’s “based” so it must be somehow more “real” and “grounded” and “legit”.

    All I know is it is much more strict about stuff than pylance was.

    Also a me problem!

drcongo  19 hours ago

It's also horrible for fasle positives unless your project happens to be the exact same setup as the maintainers' - I had to turn off the actual type checking on it. I've since moved wholesale to the Ty alpha and it feels a hell of a lot smarter.