You’re not at all, and it’s one of the main reasons that I feel confident hopping into a codebase that I’m not as familiar with in something like Rust than say

You’re not at all, and it’s one of the main reasons that I feel confident hopping into a codebase that I’m not as familiar with in something like Rust than say Ruby or JavaScript. The lack of strict types makes understanding how a program works very difficult, and being told this by the compiler or interpreter all but impossible.