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by dragonwriter 2086 days ago
> The whole point of PEP 484 seems to be to enable autocomplete in Visual Studio Code.

It's to enable tooling, but not just autocomplete. The main purpose of typing is preventing type-related bugs, though making editor autocompletion and other editor information more robust is a not-insignificant additional benefit.

PEP 484 (created 29-Sep-2014, accepted 22-May-2015) wasn't motivated by VS Code (announced April 29, 2015).