That Salesforce has a relatively broken variant of a less-than-ideal statically typed language is less a problem with the idea of static typing than with Salesf

That Salesforce has a relatively broken variant of a less-than-ideal statically typed language is less a problem with the idea of static typing than with Salesforce's crappy implementation[1]. There are less awful ways to deserialize JSON in other languages. In C# with JSON.Net, you have options ranging from very dynamic-style handling, all the way to fully-typed deserialization into POCOs, for example. [1] I have no love for Salesforce; it's a mess. Their weird custom dialect of SQL for a REST API query language is also buckets of fun.