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[โ€“] kaesaecracker@leminal.space 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The type annotations are just fancy comments. They do not do anything at runtime. If you have a function that takes an int someone can still pass in a list or anything else.

[โ€“] boletus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

The main advantage of typing for me is static linting.