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PEP-526: Syntax for Variable and Attribute Annotations
- scrollaway 10y agoI'm really not liking this shoehorned type annotation system. It's a significant decrease in readability. On top of that, the fact that there is no builtin benefit within the language of using type annotations slows down its adoption greatly. I wish some of the typescript lessons would have been learned. Typescript really got optional typing right. But instead we're left with a system which requires imports, abuses __getitem__ syntax and yields no benefits out of the box. All that because nobody wants to touch the parser -- the same sort of bad decisions which has led to the awful lambda syntax staying there so long. And the worst part is, from there I see no path to a proper type system that doesn't massively break backwards compatibility. Mishandling such a core feature could kill the language.