= is the assignment operator for varibles, dictionaries, and properties. == is the equal to comparator. It's essential to make the difference clear to the computer which is why we have two.
#yea
mortal garnet
By computer I mean interpreter
"Computer" works in that sentence. Besides, it's too soon to talk about the interpreter
TL;DR: In code, we need to assign values to things. We also need to check if two things are equal. To distinguish these two operations from one another, we use two distinct operators:
Assignment operator: =
Equality operator: ==
Make sense, @shut egret?