Funny how the author missing the point. Few things: - you can write the example if, elif, etc. in any language that supports pattern matching (dynamic or stat

Funny how the author missing the point. Few things: - you can write the example if, elif, etc. in any language that supports pattern matching (dynamic or static) safely, it has nothing to do with type systems at all - spinning up the JVM for CLI is still largely unsolved problem, this is why Python or Go is used for CLIs more - verbosity does not matter? Seriously, the most annoying part of Java is verbosity, that fosters a mindset that it does not matter how long is something. In that verbose code we can hide few things: bugs and more bugs. - not knowing anything else than Java and Python, even in 2014 is silly I think there are many better solutions for the problems he mentioned in the article.