> static languages often require a bunch of gymnastics to get the compiler to accept valid code I'd rather do the gymnastic and have the compiler tell me where

> static languages often require a bunch of gymnastics to get the compiler to accept valid code I'd rather do the gymnastic and have the compiler tell me where I screw up right away. That's a tighter, more accurate feedback loop than a REPL. (Source: trying to implement a simple depth first search in both Lua and Ocaml.)