"Refactoring a statically typed language is easier than refactoring an interpreted one ... even Python is a difficult chore that engineers shy away from because

"Refactoring a statically typed language is easier than refactoring an interpreted one ... even Python is a difficult chore that engineers shy away from because modifications are likely to create more bugs than they fix." Well said, I think refactoring being "fun" is more important then coding being "fun" for projects that are not a piece of throw-away code (unlike data analysis for example).