> I certainly didn't see the benefit... up until I started experiencing some really annoying stuff. Things like builds not failing when they should, buggy code

> I certainly didn't see the benefit... up until I started experiencing some really annoying stuff. Things like builds not failing when they should, buggy code and typos finding their way into production code somehow started to get to me It's hard for me to understand how anyone can't see the benefit of types at compile time. I mean if you write more than 100 LOC you are bound to make a mistake that a typing system would catch and think "I wonder if there is a way the my build process could catch such as silly error". I can only imagine that such programmers are "write only" in that they add lots of features but rarely need to come back and maintain their code. With an ide with autocomplete it may mitigate some mistakes and give a false sense of security about non-static typing.