"If I haven't seen it, it's new to me." I'm very happy to see the case being made for static typing. Dynamic types should be niche, and eventually they will be

"If I haven't seen it, it's new to me." I'm very happy to see the case being made for static typing. Dynamic types should be niche, and eventually they will be. Rails and Python only made them popular out of a reactionary minimalism thanks to types done wrong in C++ and Java ecosystems. New developers should read articles like this very early on. The more often they're written and posted, the sooner we can all move on from unnecessary type errors.