Back in the early 2000s, when I was a wee new SDE at Microsoft, there was a shared whiteboard down the hall from my office on which someone had scrawled: "STRO

Back in the early 2000s, when I was a wee new SDE at Microsoft, there was a shared whiteboard down the hall from my office on which someone had scrawled: "STRONG TYPING IS SO 90s!" That missive stayed on the board for over a year. I still think about it from time to time and remember that the tech world's pendulum is always in motion. Today? I adore TypeScript and I'm pretty excited about the PEP 695 QOL improvements to type annotations in Python 3.12. Where types and tools are concerned, we're in a much better place today than when Nirvana was still the next big thing. But I won't be surprised at all if in another decade I see "STRONG TYPING IS SO 20s" marked on some corporate whiteboard in Redmond. :-)