@davetron5000 @soulcutter My broader thesis is:

* The amount of benefit of static typing in catching bugs is not zero, but it's easily overrated
* Static typing has costs, and developers who are used to static typing kind of get used to it
* Developers used to static typing that come to dynamic typing languages tend to assume that because their static typing strategies don't work, there are no strategies for mitigating type issues.

@davetron5000 @soulcutter I'm just tired of the flavor of this discussion that assumes that, alone in the entire realm of software engineering, static typing has only benefits and no costs.