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> IMHO you get the same with Java (8+) and everything running atop the JVM, Golang and some other programming languages.

I mean... kind of? Java and Go both have reflection, sure. Creating types at runtime (e.g. for mocking) also kind of exists ... kind of. Though it's very hacky in both languages.

The REPL story is also much better in dynamic languages. I've seen production incidents get investigated, diagnosed and resolved in minutes, that would've taken hours at other companies.

Though of course with great power comes great responsibility. I've seen some abhorrent misuses of reflection, and I've seen issues caused by overuse of prod REPLs. It's all a tradeoff at the end of the day.

> Code navigation/auto complete is IMHO much inferior in dynamic languages

With type annotations, I've never had any problems with autocomplete or code navigation in Python (e.g. PyCharm, Python extensions for vscode, etc). Ruby either.

Without type annotations, you're gonna have a hard time.