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Can you elaborate? What exactly is wrong with dicts?

>Like using dicts for everything

Sorry what? This is absolutely not true.

I think they meant that the underlying representation for most stuff is a dict.

Global variables are stored in a dict (`vars()`). Unless you use slots, an object is essentially a dict

Doesn't really disturb me because they're not used like a dict in practice though

You can use dataclasses instead of dict now.

Unless you use __slots__, aren't all class-based objects [specifically python2 new style `class MyClass(object): pass` or all python3 classes] dicts in Python?

I was talking about the dataclasses.dataclass annotation in 3.10/3.11. You can use slots with it.

You’re right, they’re dicts unless slots are used. I read the parent comment and saying you can define types easily. But you can with dataclasses