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This makes total sense, thank you. I come from a Python background and appreciate a similar philosophy in Ruby, which is that sometimes it's just nicer and easier to not do typing. It's okay to prioritize aesthetics and ease in code.

I've gone much deeper into type checking since then, but I still like simple, dynamic scripting.

I've heard "functional core, imperative edges" and I feel like that kind of applies to static vs dynamic. I think there's a lot of cases where exposing a scripting language is a perfectly sane and good design pattern.

I'm not sure Emacs fits that category, hah, but it's just so dang useful.

I had not heard of control theory, I appreciate this