Comparison against alternatives or related designs?

[EricCousineau-TRI]

Would it be possible to mention other solutions that are under development, maybe with brief comparison?
(If you think it'd be worthwhile, I'd be happy to make a first pass.)

First and foremost, numpy.typing? (See @GilShoshan94's mention in NumPy issue here: numpy/numpy#7370 (comment))
https://numpy.org/devdocs/reference/typing.html
From the discussions there, and the related issues, the NumPy development would understandably go slower than this.

After that, perhaps mention similar solutions for related libraries? e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow?

• Make it possible to use mypy to typecheck code that uses PyTorch pytorch/pytorch#16574
• RFC: TensorFlow Canonical Type System tensorflow/community#208

And then for static type checkers (as builtins):

• https://github.com/google/pytype/blob/2d8c8960ce8621c9c3d883d44eb3fc219355bd2b/pytype/pytd/builtins/3/numpy/__init__.pytd

Thank you for taking the time to do this!

[ramonhagenaars]

Good idea. I'd appreciate your help on this.

[EricCousineau-TRI]

Sounds good! I'm currently using my prototype spin-off of your stuff, but will try to circle back and do a comparison and ensure I update this here.

If you're able to do so w/o giving me too much access, can you assign this issue to me?

[ramonhagenaars]

If you're able to do so w/o giving me too much access, can you assign this issue to me?

With pleasure! 🙂

[ramonhagenaars]

There is now a section on this topic in the documentation. Closing this issue for no recent activity.