> I think you are underestimating python developers. There are a lot of people out there writing Python, and a lot of them identify as analysts, (non-software)

> I think you are underestimating python developers. There are a lot of people out there writing Python, and a lot of them identify as analysts, (non-software) engineers, scientists, and so on. Not developers. Some of them write immaculate code. Some of them don’t know about git, functions, or commandline arguments, so their code is one long script with big chunks they comment or uncomment depending on what they’re trying to do. The latter are a big constituency for me. Plain type annotations are great in this context, because they place no burden on the user at all. All they have to do is ignore them. Best case, they notice that function f returns a list of floats rather than an ndarray and that saves me having to explain what’s going on.