I agree with bluGill and I've done most of my career programming backend infra in Python. Give me C++, Rust, Go, Java, C#, TypeScript—as long as it has a type s

I agree with bluGill and I've done most of my career programming backend infra in Python. Give me C++, Rust, Go, Java, C#, TypeScript—as long as it has a type system. Eliminates a whole class of runtime errors and just makes life easier. When I'm dealing with large projects that have lots of moving parts and other developers, strict types are essential. It's true that one can write unit tests to firm up dynamically-typed code, but doing so is not only a slog, it makes changes more fragile and deployments a lot scarier. If you aren't perfect the first time you write the tests, instead of a build failing you get restart loops, dead threads, and in the worst cases data corruption from improper silent type coercion.