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Personally I like having my TypeScript cake and eating it.

I also truly believe those who design type systems would benefit from taking a look what kind of code people programming in dynamically-typed languages produce.

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I do too, but I feel like TypeScript stands alone as an unusually effective and pleasant to use bolted-on type system. I've not seen any other approach come close. (My sample size is Python, Ruby and Elixir)

you don't think the elixir type system is effective? I've never seen a bolted-on type system get so much acceptance from the hardcore "you can add types into my dead hands" crowd

I really like PHP's type hints (I think they were the first I used) though it's somewhat limited (can't type hint complex/nested structures last time I checked).

Flow for Javascript was okay but Typescript I've found to be much nicer (last used flow years ago but occasionally I'd encounter bugs in Flow).

Python's is okay but it feels clunky.

I find it funnysad that python people coined the phrase duck typing and then ended up designing what they have now. Meanwhile TS manages to embody duck typing far better even though coming from very different background.

Does Python needs its own TypeScript moment? Many times, while writing Python and deeply frustrated with its weak(er) type system, I have dreamed of something like TypeScript or VB/VBA from the early 2000s (where the type system was surprisingly strict!). However, there are so many Python libraries written in pure C, it is way harder to create a TypeScript equivalent.

Could you point me towards the kind of code people programming in dynamically-typed languages produce?

I have lived in statically typed languages almost all of my life, and even when I don't, I pretend I do, just without having a typechecker. So I'm very curious about what I'm missing.

Any Rails app. A random one: Redmine. You can look at this file and browse the rest of the repository.

https://github.com/redmine/redmine/blob/master/app/controlle...

I hate TS's tooling with a burning, deep passion. But its type system is actually pretty incredible for what it is.

There are times that I yearn for TS's ability to do duck type reasoning in e.g. Rust (despite that not being feasible) when working with very large data types.

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