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It is harder to review Python:

1. Indentation is harder to see in diffs.

2. Explicit types give context, and if a project guidelines do not enforce type hints, as many don't, then it's hard to see what happens there.

3. Monkey patching and operator override -- I mostly stumbled upon that with "smart" types like ORM objects. Combined with 2. makes it very hard to review.

So I almost always had to download the change and review with IDE help. So it's not just code review anymore, it's manual testing.



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