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The syntax is a monstrosity. You can also extract a proven OCaml program from Coq and Coq has a beautiful syntax.

If you insist on the same language for specifying types, some Lisp variants do that with a much nicer syntax.

Python people have been indoctrinated since ctypes that a monstrous type syntax is normal and they reject anything else. In fact Python type hints are basically stuck on the ctypes level syntax wise.





That's just a sugar thing. Yeah it can get a bit more verbose.



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