In my case: Yes and yes. Wildly guessing, about 90% of the errors I find at runtime with dynamic languages would would be caught by a sane type system at compile time. If I'm comparing a completely mis-engineered statically typed language such as C++, the compilation overhead may be so bad that for code I'm writing right now feedback can still be faster with the dynamically typed language. But if we're talking interfacing a few bits of unfamiliar and not great dynamically typed code: well I've literally spent several weeks on a project that would have taken me half a day with even bad static typing.