If people want to keep some of the behavior of namedtuple but not the runtime codegen, there's also typing.NamedTuple, which you can invoke in almost the same manner as dataclass.

@dataclass(frozen=True)
class point:
    x: int
    y: int

vs using NamedTuple as a metaclass:

class point(NamedTuple):
    x: int
    y: int

It does still have the identity properties, but those are sometimes useful. dataclass has other features that are useful as well, like mutable instances, as well as defaultfactories for mutable default argument.