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I agree that static typing at least for me gives massive reduction in time in medium to large projects. And despite what many think about Java I am able to be a multiplier faster than Python with it (I would say as much as 4x at times).

What I don't understand is all these people claiming that the language is slowing them down by massive factors. I guess I'm either incredibly stupid or people on HN are incredibly smart (probably both) but I just can't even think fast enough for the syntax of the modern languages to really slow me down (ignoring copy n' paste exceptions and build time issues). For example to create the mental model of a dumb video game I'm making is taking more time than the actual coding.

In fact I would say if anything slows me down its bugs and/or features missing in immature open source libraries, crappy tooling, and lack of documentation and most importantly not fully understanding the problem (or what to create in terms of video game). And I can say this definitively about Rust... the language is awesome but I'm slow as crap in the language because of random stuff breaking and lack of good libraries.

I'm not saying Go has the above issues (on the contrary it now is rather mature) but I have hard time believing the 100x (and that is my opinion :) ) of going from problem to fully coded solution.