The state of Pyright

[jorenham]

Judging by the commit history and the growing number of issues, it looks as if Pyright isn't actively developed anymore. Is this something I should worry about?

[rchiodo]

Pyright is still being maintained, just with fewer people. @erictraut was the main contributor to Pyright in the past, but he's no longer doing this full time. The team behind https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release still uses Pyright under the covers so we need Pyright to continue. Pylance is more interested in being a language server than a type checker though, so type checker problems aren't as a high a priority for us.

I'd say Pyright might be shifting focus then? We rely on Eric to maintain the type checker parts of Pyright, but that might not be the focus as much going forward.

[jorenham]

So just to be clear; does that mean that I should not expect the open issues related to type-checking to get fixed? Or are you perhaps looking for someone who could continue Eric's work?

[rchiodo]

Type checking issues will likely take a lot longer to be fixed. I think we'd accept PRs though.

[jorenham]

Alright then, thanks for clearing that up.