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This will be similar to Typescript I assume? If so I can’t wait to use it!! I cant count how many times I’ve searched for “TS like in Python” since I’ve started working on Python codebase. TS is so awesome that I use it 100% on new projects. Ruff is also very good, but with this, large code base Python will be a breeze to work with

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You can already use static type annotations in Python and check them with Pyright. This will just make it faster.

Also currently the Python IDE support (autocompletion, refactoring, etc.) in VSCode is provided by Pylance which is closed source, so this would provide an open source alternative to that.

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