[dragonwriter]

> It's really weird to see one of the reasons for their switch to Go was because it's a statically typed language. If you want static typing, you don't choose Python in the first place.

Sure, if your only or most important criteria is static typing. But you can view static typing as desirable, but prefer Python because it has more important positive traits that no alternative with static typing has, so you sacrifice static typing for them. But then Go comes along, that is good enough on those criteria and has static typing, and you prefer it.

Of course, Python now has optional static typechecking available anyhow.