Source: thenewstack.io
Guido van Rossum on Types, Speed and the Future of Python
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.”
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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