It is not a Zero sum game. The moment you actually need to maintain a large codebase for years, strongly typed languages are much more cost-efficient. Finding

It is not a Zero sum game. The moment you actually need to maintain a large codebase for years, strongly typed languages are much more cost-efficient. Finding out, with absolute certainty, which code calls which code under which circumstances is a life-saver. Any modern IDE for JVM languages accomplishes that. It's not enough for your code to be readable. It needs to be statically traceable.