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> You either like strongly typed object oriented langs or you don't.

Sorry, but this argument doesn't pass muster anymore, when there are abundant examples of strongly typed object oriented langs which don't exhibit these flaws. C# avoids getter and setter boilerplate with `get` and `set`. Kotlin and Swift, unlike Java, actually are strongly typed, because objects aren't implicitly nullable. And the many conveniences afforded by modern language features add up to improved productivity, provided the programmer using the language doesn't rigidly refuse to learn to use them.