I can make two observations that explain some of it. Other aspects of a language can matter more than the types. Python, for example, was a well constructed la

I can make two observations that explain some of it. Other aspects of a language can matter more than the types. Python, for example, was a well constructed language in many ways that make up for much of its disadvantage on the typing side. Many commonly used statically typed languages have poor type systems. They will both fail to detect some important errors (like null pointers) and get in the way when writing more generic code.