[silverpikezero]

Your comment is grossly overstating the issue, and unnecessarily inflammatory. I have reviewed the type hints syntax, and it's not so bad. It's doubtful that anything nicer can be implemented on top of what you have clearly pointed out is a dynamically typed language.

Your criticism of Python being dynamically typed is also misguided. There are many benefits of having a dynamically typed language, which I won't bother to enumerate here since this subject gets beaten to death regularly on HN. It is a good choice to make this design decision up front and honor it as the language grows. Guido is not a moron; he knew there would be performance implications. Nobody today chooses Python for it's native performance anyways (although Cython and PyPi have made great strides for common cases).

The value of Python is not in performance, it's in the language simplicity, large ecosystem, and highly developed libraries. There are some disciplines such as machine learning and quantitative finance which are all but predicated upon Python, with excellent results. Comparisons to Go and JS are incongruous; those languages have other benefits which would make them good choices if things like concurrency (Go) and very high level abstractions (JS) are important.

The Python 3 transition was indeed rough, but in no way is it a "debacle". The community is not in "disarray"; that's absurd. The transition to 3 will happen eventually, and indeed this lethargy was caused by deliberate breakage in language features. Maybe not the best decision in hindsight, but far from this cataclysmic fantasy you seem to be depicting.

[jjtheblunt]

I'd say the comment was less inflammatory than perhaps justified.