Leeward Bound on Warpcast

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I still can't find a reason to ever use Python server-side. I worked for multiple startups that did this and stood on the idea that OO design was the only religion that mattered. Today in the year 2025 of our lord Satoshi, when you get type safety with Typescript and plenty of other strongly typed languages, what's the point of using Python for anything beyond scripting and data?

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If you typecheck data from your database, the only real errors you can have are library. Typescript serverside eliminates a lot of boilerplate because it will fail typecheck if your code doesn't work. If you're using a database that's JSON and your shape is messed up, that's not a language problem. You have operational issues. In any case, why would anyone choose to split backend and frontend in 2025? Just use typescript unless you want to waste time.

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i use backend python and i slightly prefer it to modern typescript (which has gotten much better but still kinda sucked for backend dev 2-3y ago) imho it's more pleasant to read and write and it feels like a much cleaner codebase, every time modern tools like uv + ruff fix many toolchain issues. typing is supported pretty well in many packages, and it's always optionally there, i use it lots. npm ecosystem still has its issues as well, and this is just a feeling, but generally i trust any python package to "just work" even if the maintainer doesn't touch it in 5-10y, as opposed to 5-10mo from npm i really like django framework, for the ORM (which many people hate? idgi) and built in auth and admin pages - it's nuts to me that nothing in JS comes close right now im also currently a fan of a newish framework called mountaineer, which does python-backed SSR of tsx pages via rust bindings, like a fastapi nextjs replacement, it solves frontend/backend typing consistency and is fun to use (unlike nextjs)

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just came here to add that i spent the last hour debugging a production bug in TS because my Numeric column with my Numeric typeorm that returns a Numeric zod schema was returning a string value typescript types are weakly enforced suggestions 😁

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Have you tried deno yet as well? A few of your issues exactly what deno was designed to fix.

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