Yeah, exactly. I think people add way too many zeros to those figures when they try to come up with advantages for dynamic-typing. There certainly are some, but I don't think agility is in dynamic-typing's favor.

The usual saying is that faster development is more important because your business probably won't get users anyways. As if Ruby is going to give you a two year head start before any chickens come home to roost.

I don't know about that. Maybe you will get a half-day head start on me if I'm using a statically-typed language I haven't used before and I'm digging through old projects to remember how to write my .gradle hello world.

Yeah, I haven’t used lisp enough, but I want to believe that there is something inherent in its simplicity that makes it categorically different from all of the other dynamically types languages I’ve tried which all would benefit from static types.