> The benefits of static typing (complie-time checks) are grossly exaggerated. If the claims were true, Java itself and Java projects would be much less buggy.)

I have no stats here (and neither do you :)), but based on my experience, Java code does tend to be much less buggy when compared with dynamic-typed code, keeping the features and quality of developers the same. Of course, logical bugs don't get caught by static typing. But it helps a lot when refactoring code, or collaborating on the same codebase with many people, or changing someone else's code. These things become really important once the code base hits a certain size.