Ask HN: Why are all of the best back end web frameworks dynamically typed?

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  • ihp

    🔥 The fastest way to build type safe web apps. IHP is a new batteries-included web framework optimized for longterm productivity and programmer happiness

  • I found IHP straightforward:

    https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/

    despite not remembering much haskell!

    This assumes you can get past nix for the install.

    I find IHP well-designed. I just wish the licensing scheme were more transparent.

  • mypy

    Optional static typing for Python

  • You probably already know but you can add type hints and then check for consistency with https://github.com/python/mypy in python.

    Modern Python with things like https://learnpython.com/blog/python-match-case-statement/ + mypy + Ruff for linting https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff can get pretty good results.

    I found typed dataclasses (https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html) in python using mypy to give me really high confidence when building data representations.

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  • ruff

    An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.

  • You probably already know but you can add type hints and then check for consistency with https://github.com/python/mypy in python.

    Modern Python with things like https://learnpython.com/blog/python-match-case-statement/ + mypy + Ruff for linting https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff can get pretty good results.

    I found typed dataclasses (https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html) in python using mypy to give me really high confidence when building data representations.

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