Dynamic has a nice exploratory quality. It pushes off the moment of reckoning, but sometimes you need that if you're sketching an idea in code. It was good for

Dynamic has a nice exploratory quality. It pushes off the moment of reckoning, but sometimes you need that if you're sketching an idea in code. It was good for me when I first learned, and I think that's still true now. For "in the large" systems it's basically required that stuff gets a bit more gooshy and dynamic-y and interact in an indirect, protocol-driven fashion. But when you actually have a specific piece of engineering in mind, it's nowhere near as helpful - it tends to solve things that could probably be solved more soundly with compile-time constructs. But there's a process of building up your understanding to where you can actually have confidence in what you're building, which isn't reached so easily. Having the compiler fail your code before it can run is very "magical" in that sense.