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> being able to have a completely typesafe ORM such as Drizzle (https://orm.drizzle.team/) feels like a Rubicon moment, and touching anything else feels like a significant step backwards.

Alright, but there's nothing stopping you from having a completely typesafe ORM in python, is there?

Sure, there's isn't really one that everyone uses yet, but the python community tends to be a bit more cautious and slower to adopt big changes like that.

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I'm talking about practical limitations, not academic ones. You're not incorrect (and libraries like FastAPI and Pydantic make me confident that the benefits of type-safety will grow throughout the ecosystem) but I am talking about from the perspective of someone considering whether or not to adopt typing within their Python project today.

What harm do you think typing a function, for example, would do? I'm genuinely qurious because I just can't see where the issue is.

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