[hnarn]

To be honest I feel like most criticisms against any languages are bound to sooner or later be met with the response "well, this is how this language works, and if you don't like it pick another". If you criticize a weakly typed language for an issue that is solved by strong typing, you could even argue that they are correct in saying so, unless you come up with a way to solve it without types.

I suspect that the reason that it's so common to be initially suspected of being an ideologue is that there are so many out there, and they are very vocal compared to the majority that often couldn't care less. So if you don't come up with alternate solutions, maybe the tendency is to assume you're getting at the old trope they've already heard before.

[seanparsons]

As an example I recently had someone say that "best practices" are just as good at avoiding the kinds of things a static type system catches. Python seems to be (for whatever reason) a language that creates this kind of ideology with the kind of tropes everyone has heard before.