[inimino]

> That document is not particularly enlightening either.

Here are some key words that many kibitzers here could benefit greatly from internalizing:

> > The target audience is the 5 to 10 people who work on this particular internal system.

> Yeah, because dropping static types from 10K lines of code is definitely not going to be a maintenance nightmare in the long run.

Are you one of the people responsible for maintaining those 10KLOC?

> But perhaps this is something beyond the simpleton comprehension of us novice programmers

I believe Ryan Dahl would admit to having made more mistakes in large system design than most of us will ever have a chance to. Who knows, he may have picked up a thing or two along the way that most of us haven't.

This could also just be an internal product decision that really doesn't affect anyone outside the core project team, while some of us here are projecting way too much onto it.