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I can't speak to TS. I'm not sure what "spreading" even refers to, although I've never had a problem with destructuring even though my daily driver languages don't support it.

> What do you find magical in terms of Python in particular?

Lots of libraries are magical. SQLAlchemy, most of the data science libraries, even the standard library returns different types based on the values of inputs (e.g., open() returns a binary file or a text file depending on the string you pass into it). Additionally, people often go crazy with various dynamic typing features (rather than refactoring into a common interface, people will do a bunch of `if isinstance(...)`es all over the place. Similarly people tend to go crazy with metaclasses and so on. I could go on and on.

[cygned]

> I'm not sure what "spreading" even refers to

We have code like (stupid example)

    something.map( {a, b, ...rest} => ({ ...rest, ...a, ...[b, c, d]}))

I know what it does and how it works, but I argue that's hard to understand if you haven't written it and know the context.

My Python experience is limited to only a handful of projects, but I looked into meta classes at the beginning of learning Python and that was some crazy stuff.