[wonton53]

Very true, but there is a gradient there. I have an example of the opposite extreme. A few years ago I worked with a person who would rather continue working in php 5.3 than start using Scala, which was hot at the time. He literally copy-pasted an old project instead of starting a new one in Scala (or ANY other language, this was a payment system and php does not even have strong enough crypto support in old versions). And I can tell you for sure he had at least 1 year exposure to Scala and doing at least 1 full project. His reasoning for copy-pasting old php: He was «just too stupid to understand Scala». It is an extreme example, but most people I met who dont like strong typing fall into that category (lazy? Certainly not stupid) and I just dont know what to say to them or what to think myself to accept them or even how to use whatever hidden powers these people have other than creating circular dependencies for the company by making obvoius mistakes they themselves spend most of their time fixing. Im not actually bitter, just frustrated that so many seem to just not care.