[jon49]

Languages like F# give a nice sweet spot between static typing and dynamic typing. It has Type Providers that "generate" code on the fly as you are typing. You don't need to specify all the types, it will infer many types for you. So, you almost feel like you are writing in a dynamic language but you it tells you if you are writing something incorrectly.

I would not consider a language to be modern unless it has Type Providers I consider this to be such an essential feature. I believe Idris and F# are the only languages that have it. People are trying to push TypeScript to add it - who knows if it will happen.

Many are saying that if you have a dynamic language you just need to be disciplined and write many tests. With good static typed languages like F# you can't even write tests on certain business logic since the way you write your code you make "impossible states impossible", see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8