Yes, I didn't say it was a free lunch. The entirety of my comments here are about how there are pros and cons to every language that manifest in different situa

Yes, I didn't say it was a free lunch. The entirety of my comments here are about how there are pros and cons to every language that manifest in different situations, and things like "ability to go into ugly technical debt for short-term speed boost" being a pro has nothing to do with the claim that it's an unalloyed good, but there are situations that play to its strengths and weaknesses. I hate to be rude, but I'm really not sure how you thought I hadn't already made this point if you had read the thread we're on. If anything, my original comment comes close to saying that static typing is superior, period (though the same caveats apply about different situations requiring different sets of strength and weaknesses). The obvious example here is that I unquestionably do my personal scripting in Python instead of C++, despite very much enjoying engineering jobs in the latter to those in the former. Different situations, different requirements.