Python is dynamically strong typed, meaning you don’t need to specify any types, but unlike JavaScript you can’t just use a string where an int was expected. In that sense it’s absolutely runtime enforced typing.

The whole algorithm (AppView) is centralised. While it’s technically possible to host with enough capital, a second AppView server would also double bandwidth required for every message sent on the network. This gets worse the more AppView instances you add, as every message has to be sent to every AppView server (exponential growth)