> But I have often wondered, if someone wants static typing, why not just use a statically typed language? A very high proportion of Python devs aren’t using i

> But I have often wondered, if someone wants static typing, why not just use a statically typed language? A very high proportion of Python devs aren’t using it for the language, but for the libraries and ecosystem. Also lots of them weren’t the ones who picked it. Meanwhile, not at least having the kind of autocomplete and documentation that type hints provide is kinda hellish on any project of more than 200 or so lines. The time savings from spotting runtime bugs before they happen is just a bonus. Personally, I almost never need to add a type hint outside high-level definitions and function/method signatures, so they’re not really in the way even when I’m being pretty thorough with them.