[mhitza]

I think you're ignoring how for some of us, gradual typing, is a far better experience than languages with static types.

For example what I like about PHPStan (tacked on static analysis through comments), that it offers so much flexibility when defining type constraints. Can even specify the literal values a function accepts besides the base type. And subtyping of nested array structures (basically support for comfortably typing out the nested structure of a json the moment I decode it).

[seanparsons]

Not ignoring, I just didn't write an essay. In all that time working with TypeScript there was very little that I found to be gradually typed, it was either nothing or everything, hence my original comment. Sure some things might throw in a bunch of any/unknown types but those were very much the rarity and often some libraries were using incredibly complicated type definitions to make them as tight as possible.

[choomahs187]

Worked with python, typescript and now php, seems that phpstan allows this gradual typing, while typescript kinda forces you to start with strict in serious projects.