How programmers transition between languages

Sat Jan 27 22:59:17 UTC 2018

On Saturday, 27 January 2018 at 13:56:35 UTC, rjframe wrote:
> If you use an IDE or analysis/lint tool, you'll get type 
> checking. The interpreter will happily ignore those annotations.

You need to use a type checker to get type checking... No 
surprise there, but without standard type annotations the type 
checker isn't all that useful.  Only in past few years have 
typing stubs become available for libraries, and that makes a 
difference,