[tome]

> There seems to be a cost associated with static types and that is that it takes longer to write code

Perhaps. As someone who has used Python and Haskell for roughly equal amounts of time in my professional career I definitely find Haskell faster to write in.

[baq]

mypy is getting good (from haskell's perspective that would be 'barely passable', still a great improvement from what it used to be), been using it actively for the last year and advocating it for 6 months and seeing nice ROI even considering it's warts.