Good point. I should have put more details in there. I prefer static typing with good type inference because it allows me to have a compiler validate a lot of my code pre-runtime. Otherwise I'm left with tests and actually running all of the code to do that validation. The value of this for large code bases has been worth the tradeoffs in my experience. But since this is one of the most debated things in programming I don't expect to sway anyone. I'm happy to leave this as an item of "it depends" / personal preference.