If a majority of software developers had your attitude towards static types all dynamic typed languages (maybe except for JS) would have died out by now. > If

If a majority of software developers had your attitude towards static types all dynamic typed languages (maybe except for JS) would have died out by now. > If this is "over-engineering" then I think that says a lot about how much thought, design and engineering goes into some of these code bases. Does that mean no thought and design went into all the huge protects like Instagram, Netflix and Whatsapp (that use dynamically typed languages)? Design and engineering is much more then just adding types. Clean design patterns, good code, tests and docs are pretty important too. In fact they are much more important then just static types.