I tend to agree, and fall into the camp of favoring static types. It's also extremely helpful when reading and debugging others' code bases. Having to construc

I tend to agree, and fall into the camp of favoring static types. It's also extremely helpful when reading and debugging others' code bases. Having to construct systems of rules in your head sucks. Being able to follow the function calls and data around while validating assumptions with the REPL makes figuring external bugs out much easier.