Fun with uv and PEP 723

Like the author, I find myself going more for cross-platform Python one-offs and personal scripts for both work and home and ditching Go. I just wish Python typechecking weren't the shitshow it is. Looking forward to ty, pyrefly, etc. to improve the situation a bit

Speed is one thing, the type system itself is another thing, you are basically guaranteed to hit like 5-10 issues with python's weird type system before you start grasping some of the oddities

I've never particularly liked go for cross platform code anyway. I've always found it pretty tightly wedded to Unix. Python has its fair share of issues on windows aswell though, I've been stuck debugging weird .DLL issues with libraries for far too long in my life.

Strangely, I've found myself building personal cross platform apps in game engines because of that.

I do hope the community will converge on one type checker like ty. The fact that multiple type checkers exist is really hindering to the language as a whole.

I wouldn't describe Python type checking as a shit-show. pyright is pretty much perfect. One nit against it perhaps is that it doesn't support non-standard typing constructs like mypy does (for Django etc). That's an intentional decision on the maintainer's part. And I'm glad he made that decision because that spurned efforts to make the standard typing constructs more expressive.

I'm also looking forward to the maturity of Rust-based type checkers, but solely because one can almost always benefit from an order of magnitude improvement in speed of type checking, not because Python type-checking is a "shit show".

I do grant you that for outsiders, the fact that the type checker from the Python organization itself is actually a second rate type checker (except for when one uses Django, etc, and then it becomes first-rate) is confusing.