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Ask HN: Anyone using Python's static typing in a large project?
11 points by matanrubin on Oct 22, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
I've read quite a lot about mypy and optional static typing in Python, and was wondering if there are any large and successful projects that use it? If you're currently using it, I'd love to hear some impressions.



Dropbox and Instagram use mypy/typing actively. Also among open-source: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx

I would say the opposite, it is not very useful for small projects.


Zulip's post on their experience with mypy got some discussion last year.

221 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703008

Blog post: http://blog.zulip.org/2016/10/13/static-types-in-python-oh-m...


Yes, I'm familiar with their post, and it's great that their server code is available on Github [1]. Was hoping to find more projects using it.

[1] https://forms.mvs.co.il/formally/LoginDocSign.aspx?ID=4491b7...


Google internally uses pytype, which is similar to mypy, and while not globally used, is used on across a large number of files.




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