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[-] kaesaecracker@leminal.space 5 points 1 year ago

The type annotations are just fancy comments. They do not do anything at runtime. If you have a function that takes an int someone can still pass in a list or anything else.

[-] boletus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

The main advantage of typing for me is static linting.

[-] Anahkiasen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But will it run? I'm used to typescript where it's not checked at runtime but you can't "build" unsafe types I'd assume it's the same here

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

no they really are just fancy comments. You can do runtime reflection on them if you wanna make something fancy like a plugin system but that's about it

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