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Folker Aug 10, 2023

My fear is that this type hinting pushes #python down the same bad road as #cpp:

Making an originally nice programming language more and more complex and ugly by giving in to the pressure of adding more and more features which don't fit into the original idea of the programming language.

In my view, the core philosophy of #python is that it is a high-level dynamically typed language . And the core philosophy of #cpp is that it is a low-level statically typed language.

Don't mix that.

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kfet Aug 10, 2023

@folkerschamel @ado Python's guiding principles are actually well defined. Nice easter egg to find them:

```
>>> import this
```

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Folker Aug 10, 2023

@kfet @ado

Doesn't type hinting violate the third and seventh zen?😔

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kfet

@folkerschamel @ado I'll have to disagree with you there. Looking at OP's post it's the opposite - the new type hinting both hugely simplifies it, while making it much more readable.