> As static typing becomes more elaborate the scope of the bugs it can prevent becomes wider, but it usually comes with an additional cost: Build times. This i

> As static typing becomes more elaborate the scope of the bugs it can prevent becomes wider, but it usually comes with an additional cost: Build times. This is the meat of the entire argument, and it's false, as you can verify by running ghc with the -fno-code option. Type checking is extremely fast. It's everything else that's slow and that has absolutely nothing to do with static typing.