[jmorenoamor]

Coming from Java extreme verbosity, I just loved the freedom of python 20 years ago. Working with complex structures with mixed types was a breeze.

Yes, it was your responsibility to keep track of correctness, but that also taught me to write better code, and better tests.

[procaryote]

Writing tests is harder work than writing the equvalent number of type hints though

[dirkc]

Type hints and/or stronger typing in other languages are not good substitutes for testing. I sometimes worry that teams with strong preferences for strong typing have a false sense of security.

[procaryote]

People write tests in statically typed languages too, it's just that there's a whole class of bugs that you don't have to test for.

[mixmastamyk]

Hints are not sufficient, you’ll need tests anyway. They somewhat overlap.

[ivanjermakov]

Writing and maintaining tests that just do type checking is madness.

Dynamic typing also gives tooling such as LSPs and linters a hard time figuring out completions/references lookup etc. Can't imagine how people work on moderate to big projects without type hints.