Not an authority on the subject, but on the implementation side I guess it simplifies parsing and "type erasure" (I don't know the proper terminology for transp

Not an authority on the subject, but on the implementation side I guess it simplifies parsing and "type erasure" (I don't know the proper terminology for transpilation). As for developer experience, I'm sure it helps gradual typing. I much prefer that style since it doesn't keep pushing the most important names to the right and causing jagged textual structure (never knowing at which column function/method names begin, unless you go with a multiline declaration style, which some C/C++ shops do). At this point I wish all languages with a C origin used name-focused as opposed to type or qualifier-focused style, but you can't really change it now.