Guido van Rossum on Types, Speed and the Future of Python

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Where will Python be in 100 years? It’s a question MIT-based AI researcher https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/ posed to Python creator Guido van Rossum towards the end of a wide-ranging, https://lexfridman.com/guido-van-rossum-2/.

Python has been around for more than 30 years, so van Rossum has already seen the ebb and flow of popular programming languages.

Fridman pointed van Rossum to http://mypy-lang.org/, Python’s experimental (and optional) static type checker, asking “where does mypy stand now — and what’s the future of static typing in Python?”

But he also points out that since new releases of Python only happen once a year, type checkers “evolve at a much higher speed than Python and its annotation syntax.”

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