I've written countless programs with both static typing and dynamic typing, side by side. The statically typed programs are three times as long. It's not the t

I've written countless programs with both static typing and dynamic typing, side by side. The statically typed programs are three times as long. It's not the type hints that are responsible. It's the supporting code for allowing the usage of static type checking. Abstract base classes, interface, generics, that stuff which just doesn't exist in the dynamically typed world.