I've never experienced this personally, although I hear it said a lot. I generally work on server side applications with a database behind them and 90% of the w

I've never experienced this personally, although I hear it said a lot. I generally work on server side applications with a database behind them and 90% of the work involved is taking data from the client and putting it in the database or the other way around. The database handles actual type enforcement. The requests come in as strings and they are returned to the client in string based format. Introducing types to the server side language has never done anything for me other than making sure that the types are in sync with those of the database while creating a lot of tedious overhead converting data that the application itself might not ever need to process to a particular type. The Elixir gradual typing approach has always seemed like the ideal balance to me.