[gregmac]

> As I grow older I guess I am growing more fond of statically typed languages. It's easier for my decaying/distracted brain to reason about. There is less mental overhead I suppose

I'm not even sure it's an "older" thing -- it's nice just to have less mental overhead.

The things that used to turn me off from static languages (eg: most of the benefits dynamic languages have) have disappeared. Generics allows creation of some powerful re-usable code (eg, List<T> or RunningAverage<T>). Tools to easily convert any random JSON or XML to concrete classes make it a simple extra step to consume any API.

The benefits are massive. Code-completion just frees your brain from having to remember or deeply think about what's available. Type-safety giving compile-time (or even coding-time) errors prevents so many stupid problems that, in a dynamic language, take a runtime check to find.