Yeah, I'm not saying it's not useful, and I can't wait to introduce static typing into my own programs and get those benefits. But every time I step away from R

Yeah, I'm not saying it's not useful, and I can't wait to introduce static typing into my own programs and get those benefits. But every time I step away from Ruby I end up missing it more than the other language gives me. And this is after I figure out how the other language does what I'm trying to do. To me typing is something you don't want until you really want it, until then it's just boilerplate. That "class of bugs that just get nixed" isn't something that starts happening, once you're skilled anyway, until a certain point in the evolution of your application. There's a lot of code that I add to my Ruby classes that involves type-checking, and it would be nice to lean on a dedicated system for handling type abstractions rather than doing it ad-hoc every time I have to do it. For that reason, I'm greatly looking forward to Ruby's upcoming type system.