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All I can say is that we clearly have divergent experiences here. I've worked with statically typed languages for about a decade, I used Haskell specifically for about a year. I've since moved to Clojure, and I've been using it for the past 8 years professionally. My experience is that the team I work on is much more productive with Clojure than any static language we've used, and we have not seen any increase of defects in nearly a decade of using the language compared to similar sized projects we've developed previously in statically typed languages like Java and Scala.

If dynamic typing was problematic we would've switched back a long time ago.




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