Simple, it's a war between those who are Pascal inclined (and probably liked Macs and Steve Jobs) e.g. (https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-type-go-after-the-var

Simple, it's a war between those who are Pascal inclined (and probably liked Macs and Steve Jobs) e.g. (https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-type-go-after-the-variable-name-in-modern-programming-languages https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-type-go-after-the-variabl... - add Rust, Kotlin and Scala) and those who know the best languages, the ones that are actually used in production at companies large and small worldwide: C, C++, Java and C#. IOW, if the language does "type varname" then it's correct, if it does "varname: type" then it is doomed. It's sarcasm but it's true.