I think you make a good point about the ivory towers and the social pressure being a turnoff for adopting certain technologies. Though I also think this doesn't

I think you make a good point about the ivory towers and the social pressure being a turnoff for adopting certain technologies. Though I also think this doesn't detract from their potential technical merits. As in, a technology can be both great, and have everyone about it be pretentious. > I find dynamic typing similar to how unit testing is a forcing function for writing composable code, it acts as a forcing function to writing simple code; simple to read and simple to comprehend. I don't agree with this argument, I think it's akin to saying "I like driving blindfold because it makes me drive slower". You can use linters with limits on line length and number of params if this is a goal for you, no need to go indirect with the restrictions. I agree that typing is not the only solution, I'm just saying that I think the ROI is massive in types, so I think this should be the first tool people go to. Almost no investment, and a lot of benefit. I agree with "code is the documentation", I even made a point about documentation in the post, but I argue that typing is part of the code. So "the code is the documentation, and typing is part of the code" is how I'd phrase it.