> Are you going to actually get things done faster or better? Faster: depends on what you’re used to. Personally I find strongly typed languages faster to work

> Are you going to actually get things done faster or better? Faster: depends on what you’re used to. Personally I find strongly typed languages faster to work with evolved code bases. Where you’re refactoring code or dealing with unfamiliar API you get very clear compiler warnings and that becomes as powerful an aid as code coverage in your test suites. When writing new code, it does take marginally longer. But so does many other best practices in software development that are skewed towards maintainability (like writing tests in the first place). Better: my favourite example of this is when you need to store a serial like “012345”. Without telling the compiler/runtime that it’s a string you run the risk of all sorts of uncaptured bugs. So personally I think typed code is better code. You don’t need to be scientific with how you use type systems either. This specific bug is captured just using a string instead of an integer.