[squaredpants]

That still doesn't encompass the advantages of a statically-typed language...

[trentmc]

I totally acknowledge that there are pros and cons for both dynamically and statically typed languages. (We could start a 10 page discussion here. But I've been there before, perhaps you have too, how about we save our energy? ;)

[tluyben2]

For the latest and greatest 10 pages about that; just search for the the Hickey 10 year Clojure (rant-ish in places) talk and the Haskell community responding to it.

[trentmc]

OK! :)

[yaseer]

Well done for gracefully and thoroughly responding to the usual HN barrage of technical critiques.

[trentmc]

Thank you:) Even if there's hype and critique, we can always rise above and maintain our integrity as we build things that matter.

[imiric]

Python has optional typing support in the standard library since version 3.5. Granted, not type _checking_, but that is offloaded to external tools like mypy[0].

I feel that gradual typing offers the best of both worlds: rapid prototyping, but also the strictness of types where you need it.

0: http://mypy-lang.org/

[trentmc]

Good point! I think the Python folks made a great design choice there. I updated my comment above to help future readers.