Strong typing is what allowed me to be a developer. I was never a great developer but I was good enough to be worth my salary. I was not smart enough to maintai

Strong typing is what allowed me to be a developer. I was never a great developer but I was good enough to be worth my salary. I was not smart enough to maintain a complete mental model of a a weak-typed software but I was able to do fairly complex stuff with the safety net of strong typing. My software developer would have ended much sooner (or never have been) without strong types. I had not other choice but to live or die on that hill.