ABOUT THIS EPISODE
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 did that, how pull requests lead to lifelong friendships, and about the factors that led to Hypothesis’ success.
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