Except the language is designed around this - for example, trying to get a value from a dictionary in Python doesn't return `None` if it doesn't exist, it throw

Except the language is designed around this - for example, trying to get a value from a dictionary in Python doesn't return `None` if it doesn't exist, it throws an exception. I'm not saying static typing has no value, but there are benefits to dynamic typing, and Python embraces its dynamic typing and is designed around it, so none of the problems given in the article really apply.