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Re:TypeScript at Slack by dilap on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:10AM (#14094681)
I'm right there with you, but dynamically-typed languages still have their advocates (though it seems they're losing out more recently).

(I think this is because a lot of the advantages associated with dynamic typing were in fact portable back to statically typed languages. If you're comparing C++98 to Python, the dynamically typed language seems pretty nice. If you're comparing Javascript to Golang or TypeScript, not so much.)

Re:TypeScript at Slack by alkonaut on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:52AM (#14095653)
When discussing static-vs-dynamic typing and the argument from the dynamic advocate is "I don't want to type types everywhere", the debate is over.

There are a few valid arguments in favor of dynamic typing - but that isn't one of them.