> All of this to say: it could have been a contender! It could have been like TypeScript!! No, it's to say: "I think Python should have done things the way Typ

> All of this to say: it could have been a contender! It could have been like TypeScript!! No, it's to say: "I think Python should have done things the way TypeScript does!" But Python is not TypeScript. It's a different language with a different design philosophy. Expecting to use it exactly the way you would use TypeScript is of course not going to work out well, just as expecting to use TypeScript exactly the way you would use Python is not going to work out well.