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by mbesto 2050 days ago
> I do not see how this is in any way a necessity.

Right, but that's not my point. My point is that using a static type language isn't JUST about performance. If I define foo as a string and call it as an integer in my program, my compiler is going to catch it, whereas in a dynamically type language I may not discover the bug until it hits production.