alt Hacker NewsI mean, the post was written by a Stanford CS lab, so I'm inclined to believe that they know what they're talking about and are not just bad at creating abstractions.
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vatsachak • today at 2:06 AM
The machine learning community decided to choose Python as the main language, which costs probably tens of millions of dollars in bugs every year due to it not being type checked (astral sh is fixing this though)
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I know nothing about the PhD candidate and professor who co-authored this, but I don't think this statement makes sense in general.
Typically CS labs at universities contain people who have not spent a significant amount of time exposed to large industry codebases and the corresponding complexity. I think the post would have more credibility coming from e.g. the platforms team at a tech company with a monorepo.