[andai]

I became hopeful for a moment, then saw it's from 2015. Ouch! (Also, I love the name. I had a similar idea I called "use sane", but obviously that one wouldn't have gotten far...)

The strong typing thing is really interesting. After using JavaScript for a while, I developed PTSD around dynamic types. I became convinced that static typing was the only way to avoid hell.

Then I used Python for a while, and... experienced approximately none of my previous pain. I found that quite odd. Turns out what I was actually after was a sane type system, not a static one. In other words, strong types rather than weak ones.

I do think there are additional benefits to static typing, especially for larger projects and serious work. But I was surprised that most of the pain-delta was in this first jump:

Weak -> Strong -> Static