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#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Evolution of Types in Python

The Python community started to standardize the syntax for adding types. According to the Python spec, you can write pretty much anything in a type position. But it's also a problem because any existing Python program may be using different tools and they have different interpretations. And so if you adopt somebody's package into your ecosystem, try around the tool you prefer, it may throw out tons of weird errors and warnings just because it's incompatible with how these things were.

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