Question - Any thoughts on using pydantic for models?

[virajkanwade]

https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/why/

[mikix]

Can you expand on your thinking here? Are you thinking about performance, correctness, or something else?

Or put another way: what's the problem that you're experiencing now, that pydantic would help solve?

[virajkanwade]

Hi @mikix I was thinking along the lines of performance.
Pydantic 2 core is written in rust. So the validations are very fast compared to something written purely in Python.

[weishuhn]

@mikix As someone who is new to FHIR, I would also like this. For me it is more about speed of development and confidence in the code I write. It's nice to have the type checker telling me where I've made a wrong assumption about the structure of a resource and I also use it to explore the different properties on a resource without having to bounce back and forth between the code and the FHIR website.