I felt the same way about static types, until I had the misfortune to work on an absolute disaster of a codebase (happened to be in Javascript). The worst case

I felt the same way about static types, until I had the misfortune to work on an absolute disaster of a codebase (happened to be in Javascript). The worst case for a dynamically-typed codebase is so very much worse in high-level languages. Admittedly, the immutable data structures in Erlang/Elixir help offset this.