Thanks @ohgodplsno for the detailed and thoughtful response. One final point is that with statically typed languages you sometimes fight with the language to d

Thanks @ohgodplsno for the detailed and thoughtful response. One final point is that with statically typed languages you sometimes fight with the language to deliver. The language and libraries becomes a maze of problems. Developer productivity and sense of accomplishment is low. I sometimes look at my code when I wrote a matlab clone in C++, It seems like half of the code is things which I wrote to overcome or augment the language and the libraries.