Static typing had a tighter feedback loop - you don't even need to run the code to see you made a (type) error. Ability to do structural printing of arbitrary

Static typing had a tighter feedback loop - you don't even need to run the code to see you made a (type) error. Ability to do structural printing of arbitrary structures is not restricted to dynamically typed languages. However, I actually think a good beginner language could be dynamic or static.