> and there was zero help from the tooling That's mostly my experience with ruby, too: you can type anything, don't worry about it! I wanted to mention that G

> and there was zero help from the tooling That's mostly my experience with ruby, too: you can type anything, don't worry about it! I wanted to mention that Gradle since I think about version 7 supports mostly static typing via Kotlin but regrettably it's lipstick on a pig since almost inevitably one needs to interact with the Groovy side of the house and then all bets are off