[mikeash]

I've been seeing much the same from programmers invested in the Apple ecosystem who will likely be spending all day writing nothing but Swift within a year.

[austinz]

Lots of people are having a hard time understanding the difference between dynamic typing and static typing with type inference.

[mikeash]

Definitely. I suppose it's understandable if this is your first exposure to type inference. Superficially it looks exactly like the "assign anything to anything" languages like Python or JavaScript.