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What is striking about macOS 11.0 is the degree to which is feels more like a son of iOS than the sibling that Mac OS X was:

• macOS 11.0 runs on ARM, just like iOS; in fact the Developer Transition Kit that Apple is making available to developers has the same A12Z chip as the iPad Pro.
• macOS 11.0 has a user interface overhaul that not only appears to be heavily inspired by iOS, but also seems geared for touch.
• macOS 11.0 attempts to acquire developers not primarily by being open and good, but by being easy and good enough.

Ever since optional static typing was added to Python 3.5+, the question of using type annotations keeps creeping back everywhere I work. Some see them as a step forward for the Future of Python™, but to me and many others it's a step back for what coding with Python fundamentally is. I've been in a number of debates over type annotations at work and so decided to compile some of the recurring points of discussion here.

Unlike languages like C, much of the time Python will free up memory for you. But sometimes, it won’t work the way you expect it to.

It's a bloody business, overthrowing a king. Now, amid the chaos, a whispered rumour is spreading. A rumour about a broken promise, omens of death and the gods returning to walk the earth.

No one really believes these whispers.

Perhaps they should.