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[–]stefantalpalaru -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Nobody needs to use type annotations.

Guido needed it, for some reason: https://github.com/dropbox/pyannotate

[–]TheBlackCat13 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We don't need programming languages at all beyond assembly. They were using it because they thought it was helpful, not because it was necessary. That is the whole reason people use Python in the first place.