[tristanstcyr]

Try working with a large 5 year old JS codebase that's been hammered on by dozens of devs. The problems are no longer just pin point bugs but a systemic lack of modeling.

Static typing is not that much about preventing bugs but more about forcing the code to operate over a well defined model.

Can you write good code without static typing? Yes. Can you scale and maintain it in a large organization, probably not.