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In case you're not aware, many static languages have implicit typing nowadays. I still write Ruby most often, but for example in Go you could just write `something := "string"` and with that := operator it'll manage the type assignment for you. Lots of other static languages offer that now also. I'm not well versed on modern Java, but the type system in Go pretty much gets out of the way for the things I've done with it.