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> Static typing can be a bitch to get right.

That goes away with experience. Typescript can be particularly bad because it has in incredibly complicated type system (to accommodate all the wacky things you can do in JS), but after you get "used to it", the puzzled pauses become fewer and fewer. Eventually it's no inhibition whatsoever, and actually makes you faster because of IDE code completion, refactoring, and bugs caught by the IDE/compiler.

This is that "blub" thing people talk about.