Dynamic languages was a breath of fresh air compared to the clunky explicit typing of Java. The first versions of Java didn't even have generic, so just using c

Dynamic languages was a breath of fresh air compared to the clunky explicit typing of Java. The first versions of Java didn't even have generic, so just using collections required lots of explicit casting to make the compiler happy for little benefit. But today the breath of fresh air is powerful type systems and type inference which provides the benefit of typing without the syntactic overhead.