You said: > Static typing is net 0 cost. We don't need to be "honest" static typing is obviously not free you need to think of types. The real revelation was

You said: > Static typing is net 0 cost. We don't need to be "honest" static typing is obviously not free you need to think of types. The real revelation was that the cost of dynamic languages far exceeds the cost of a statically typed language. And my point is the static typed languages we do have didn't save us anything in terms of cost. I recommend maybe you read the hackernews posting guidelines before you post again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html