Agreed. It does cause lots of verbose ceremony, as you put it (I'm stealing that). Its quite the experience using a Java IDE and noticing how much code is autom

Agreed. It does cause lots of verbose ceremony, as you put it (I'm stealing that). Its quite the experience using a Java IDE and noticing how much code is automatically included by pressing tab. Quite comical that Netbeans has shortcuts words for printing to terminal. Your second point really hits home. I've been battling with Python and runtime types. Its just the nature of the beast. That's why I've been focusing more on languages with solid type systems. I will happily trade verbosity for types. :)