> “In Python a good amount of errors are discovered at runtime" In my experience this is roughly equally true with statically typed languages as it is with Pyt

> “In Python a good amount of errors are discovered at runtime" In my experience this is roughly equally true with statically typed languages as it is with Python. The types of errors the compiler helps find before running tests are just not important. They are not types of errors that matter much. And if compiler errors are cryptic enough, it can be a huge huge pain that you can’t just run the code on a toy input to see what’s going on. The whole pitch about how static typing and compilation will save you time by forcing more correctness prior to testing is just a hogwash myth in practice. It happens occasionally, but not nearly enough to justify all the stuff advocating it, and the benefits of being able to debug according to desired behavior and just not care about strict safety in edge cases you can guarantee you won’t hit are really tangible. You cannot easily dismiss these benefits.