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I did nothing but Java from around 1998 to 2002 and then again around 2006-2008, and there is definitely a deep satisfaction when you have built your giant statically typed castle and compile it and then it runs the first time. In Java though, obviously the verbosity that implies, particularly when I was using it pre-generics, most certainly erased any productivity gains and made for code that was very difficult for new people to understand, tests were in particular extremely hard to write. So at least with Java's widely criticized model, it was sort of nice-ish but hard to say it was worth it.

What Python is doing with typing I think is going to be amazing though. Just not sure if I'll have time to embrace it fully within my own projects.