S1 Episode 10 - Erik De Bonte
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This is the 10th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast, and we're excited to have Erik De Bonte as our special guest! Erik is a Principal Software Engineer working on Pylance, the default language server for Python in Visual Studio Code 🐍. In this episode, he shares his learnings and work on typed Python and a bit about what it was like ramping up on Pylance while also writing a PEP for the first time 🤯

To celebrate the release of our 10th episode, we also made a bingo card that you can use to cross-off things that may happen in each of our episodes 😝. Check it out)!

As usual, here are a few of the resources and references we mentioned throughout the episode:

• Erik De Bonte @ GitHub)

• Pylance extension for VS Code)

• Real Python) (& their podcast)!)

• Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho)

• Advanced Visual Studio Code for Python Developers by Anthony Shaw)

• Pyright, the type checker that powers up the Pylance experience in VS Code)

• Pyre)

• PyType)

• Typing sig mailing list)

• Python Data Classes)

• PEP 557 - Data Classes)

• PEP 681 - Data Class Transforms)

• The dataclass_transform decorator)

• Python 3.11) (which is out now!)

• Descriptors in Python)

• Is This Band Emo? website): isthisbandemo.com

• Nobody's Hero by Rush)

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