[sails01]

Is there any study that shows that typing in Python improves code quality and reduce runtime issues?

[kurtis_reed]

Newsflash: not everything good has a study about it

[wiseowise]

> Ughm, is there any study that shows that guardrails and lights on bridges reduce fatalities?

> Akshually, are there any studies showing that cars riding 30 km/h kill less people than cars that ride 80 km/h?

[dllthomas]

I think there are both of those.

[bmitc]

That's equivalent to asking if there are benefits of static typing.

[pansa2]

Specifically, it's like asking if there are any studies that demonstrate benefits of static typing. Are there?

[sails01]

Not quite, static typing is used at runtime, python type annotations are not

[hexo]

Well, it's just a documentation suggestion for user. Having for me about same value as if it was written in pydoc. I'd really love to see such study as well

[sails01]

Agree, we already had a solution documenting types in docstring.

In my case they just add noise when reading code and make it more difficult to review

[solarkraft]

it has been consensus for decades at this point.