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A Wild Hypothesis: The Python Library that Kills PhDs

· 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 1

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What happens when your open source library changes millions of lives?
In this episode, we sit down with David MacIver, Zac Hatfield-Dodds, and Liam DeVoe — three generations of maintainers of Hypothesis, the property-based testing library used by roughly 5% of all Python developers. It’s by orders of magnitude the most-widely used property-based testing tool in the world.
Hypothesis has introduced millions of developers to property-based testing, and made instant converts out of many others.
All three maintainers quit their PhDs to work on Hypothesis, and today they talk about just why they…

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