diggan 4 days ago

> Is there a good reason to avoid using Pyrefly?

Wouldn't the other way around be easier for finding good tools? Figure out what matters to you, inspect if the project fulfills those needs and then go with it after making sure it works well for you.

Regardless, a comparison between the two was posted to HN not too long time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107655

  • rhaps0dy 4 days ago

    > Wouldn't the other way around be easier for finding good tools?

    I agree, and Pyrefly seemed good; I was just wondering why people don't mention it.

    Thank you for the comparison thread and post, I've read it and found it useful! Thanks to that post I know ty has a "gradual typing" philosophy, which I disprefer.

samwgoldman 3 days ago

(Pyrefly dev here) As another commenter mentioned, Pyrefly is still in alpha. Sorry we don't make that more clear!

While we are in alpha, and there are plenty of open issues we are still working through, I think Pyrefly is actually pretty usable already, especially for code navigation.

veber-alex 4 days ago
  • rhaps0dy 4 days ago

    Hah, I stand corrected. In my defense, Ty make it a lot more obvious and ominous on their github (https://github.com/astral-sh/ty):

    > /!\ Warning

    > ty is in preview and is not ready for production use.

    > We're working hard to make ty stable and feature-complete, but until then, expect to encounter bugs, missing features, and fatal errors.

jolux 4 days ago

I believe Pyrefly is stricter, so it may be a better choice for new projects but harder to integrate into existing ones without type-checking.