What he forgets to mention is that you have to fix a good deal of the bugs at runtime(spending time in debugger), that would otherwise be picked up by a compile

What he forgets to mention is that you have to fix a good deal of the bugs at runtime(spending time in debugger), that would otherwise be picked up by a compiler and also figuring out the workarounds on the shitty toolchain I think that this is a subjective position, some people find that the dev cycle is faster, in some cases fast enough to offset the debugging and yet others don't experience the issue to the degree that it is highlighted. I see this position from a good deal of people that prefer static languages and for me personally it is just not a huge issue. I just don't run into the issue that static languages are supposed to save me from enough to forgo the rapid development of languages such as JavaScript and Lisp. I think this issue is bore more out of how each of us develops and thinks, rather than some correctness of one over the other.