When I learned Python I thought that not having a statically typed language was the way to go, but then it just became an issue when I was trying to ensure that everything was at least something like what I was expecting. Going back to statically typed languages even harder with Rust has been a dream. I love it.

nasm? the x86 assembler from the 90s?

Eh, strict typing makes debugging way, way easier. Saint Grace brought us compilers for a reason. If all you have is assembly, you should start writing one.

For NASA, data types don’t matter when you’re programming Voyager 1 and 45 years later it gets hit by an energy burst causing 3% of the RAM to become unusable, and it’s transmitting gibberish. It’s awesome they were able to recover it.

It’s documentation. I’m a strickler to type in python so later when I look at my code and go what does this do it’s easier.

let comment: String = String::from(“lol”);
println!(“{}”, comment);

Not sure I’ve ever heard of nasm

Time to rewrite the world in assembly

Python with type hints and mypy and ruff = <3

Large Python codebase without types = nightmare

Data types do matter, and someone’s got to declare them at some point, or else your compiler won’t know how to intepret them. It’s just a question of who should be doing the declaring: you, or a parser algorithm? Personally, I don’t like things being done for me.