typed annotations that are useful.

Currently they are a bit pointless. Sure they aid in documentation, but they are effort and cause you pain when making modifications (mind you with halfarse agentic coding its probably less of a problem. )

What would be better is to have a strict mode where instead of duck typing its pre-declared. It would also make a bunch of things faster (along with breaking everything and the spirit of the language)

I still don't get the appeal of UV, but thats possibly because I'm old and have been using pyenv and venv for many many years. This means that anything new is an attack on my very being.

however if it means that conda fucks off and dies, then I'm willing to move to UV.