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by kh_hk 6 days ago
Doesn't it come from folks that are forced to work with dynamically-typed languages but can't be arsed to understand them?
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understand?

It's really easy to understand that everything is typed as Any/Object/whatever upper bound type your statically-typed language of choice uses.

Desiring something better does not mean a lack of understanding of the status quo.

Can you elaborate?
Let me paraphrase the summary of Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen:

    It’s easy to write correct Ruby code, but to gain the fluency needed to
    write great Ruby code, you must go beyond syntax and absorb the “Ruby way”
    of thinking and problem solving