Should we remove mypy type checking or validation

[amimas]

          Frankly I am fed up with constant mypy issues. I don’t recall any case where it helped while I remember many ones where it was just an nuisance. I propose to get rid of this check completely. Any objections, @amimas ?

Originally posted by @gdubicki in #585 (comment)

[amimas]

I like the concept or idea of type checking and validation. But, I'm really new to Python and don't have enough experience to suggest whether to keep using mypy for this project or not. I'd go with your expertise @gdubicki . Hopefully we hear from other experienced contributors as well.

[adam-moss]

I use type checking, and mypy, generally without issue, with the type annotation settings turned on in vs-code and a bit of policing from ruff.

I'd be more inclined to use pydantic on anything new though.

[gdubicki]

Isn’t pydantic use-case a bit different, @adam-moss? I haven’t used it but based on what I read is more of a data validation solution than a type-checker.