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> The reason is that they are not really a part of the language, they violate the spirit of the language

This is a good way of expressing my own frustration with bolting strong typing on languages that were never designed to have it. I hate that TypeScript has won out over JavaScript because of this - it’s ugly, clumsy, and boilerplatey - and I’d be even more disappointed to see the same thing happen to the likes of Python and Ruby.

My background is in strongly typed languages - first C++, then Java, and C# - so I don’t hate them or anything, but nowadays I’ve come to prefer languages that are more sparing and expressive with their syntax.