As my comment near the top of this comment tree hinted, I pretty much do find statically-typed languages to be overall quite superior, but the reason that I fin

As my comment near the top of this comment tree hinted, I pretty much do find statically-typed languages to be overall quite superior, but the reason that I find myself defending dynamically-typed languages all over this thread is because of the hard-line being taken by many that they couldn't possibly have any advantages in any situation. I do plenty of scripting, to improve both my personal and professional productivity, and I don't even think twice about using Python instead of Kotlin or C++ or what-have-you. I iterate rapidly on my scripts, they're not part of large engineering systems that a reader may be bouncing around, the rare bug that may pop up isn't production-critical, and the ability to be both fluent and concise just makes the code faster to read and write, given the small scope of the program. This is sort of a lazy example, because it's not far from the truth to say that scripting languages are suited to scripting and that's why they suck for engineering, but it illustrates the point that different situations can highlight or downplay the importance of the relative strengths of weaknesses of various languages and paradigms, and there are few common programming-language characteristics[1]. The problem here is that half the people on this thread are looking for a simple, low-dimensional model to cram the issue into, requiring dynamic languages to have _zero_ advantages in order to sustain their view that statically-typed languages are superior overall. I'm not really sure how to fix this tendency, and it's by no means limited to just disputes within the field of programming, Simpler, black-and-white models are much easier for the brain to handle, so people gravitate towards them even when they don't match reality as accurately. [1] though it is fair to say that a big chunk of the advantage of dynamically-typed languages is "accessibility to those who barely know how to code", which doesn't affect the calculus for someone who's capable of writing in either type of language