[the_af]

I interpreted the comment as "Java's verbosity made us think all static type systems were also verbose". Which I know is what a lot of people still think ("but the lack of REPL!", "but the boilerplate!", "but the elegant code", disregarding that other statically typed languages have all these features and more).

[saagarjha]

Even Java has some of those now, to some point.

[dionian]

especially so in scala,clojure