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avinassh04/01/20252 repliesview on HN

> There are plenty of large projects written in Python.

There are, but they are certainly a pain in the ass to work with.

I once had to work on a semi-large Python codebase and got so frustrated that I wanted to port the code to some other language. The best part? I wrote the majority of that codebase myself, just months earlier.

I ranted about it here: https://avi.im/blag/2023/refactoring-python/


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mplanchard04/01/2025

Yeah I mean, I've worked on a multi-million-line Python 2 codebase. It wasn't easy, but it certainly wasn't impossible.

ddejohn04/01/2025

Not sure why you're being downvoted -- large, legacy, untyped Python projects are a nightmare to work with.

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