On: Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me

[fulafel]

The realities of the browser platform have indeed created a unique environment where many nice languages have appeared that compile to JS. Besides TypeScript there's Elm, ReasonML, ClojureScript, and many more.

There are a some competing languages for the Python runtime as well: https://github.com/vindarel/languages-that-compile-to-python