I've done a bunch of work with statically typed languages and am not about to argue that dynamic languages can be as easily navigated or statically analyzed by

I've done a bunch of work with statically typed languages and am not about to argue that dynamic languages can be as easily navigated or statically analyzed by IDEs as statically typed ones can. That said, dynamic languages still have a great deal of value, and a significant portion of the programming population uses them, so I still think it's worthwhile to set down some useful rules of thumb.