> This is interesting. I have programmed in typed languages for most of my life, including C/C++/Java/C#, but when I went to Python, i did not feel any problem

> This is interesting. I have programmed in typed languages for most of my life, including C/C++/Java/C#, but when I went to Python, i did not feel any problem with lack of static typing. I have heard this a couple of times from some developers with similar backgrounds and I have typically found that either these emacs/vim developers are very disciplined and/or have not really worked with large teams. Or the language hits their problem domain so well that the benefits of productivity and terseness outweigh safety (ie research/scientific computing) and or the projects are small. But having had 15 or so developers working on a project before Typescript was invented I can tell you the pain was tremendous.