> With introspection you can then easily see what methods a given object has.
With VS and C#, I can hit ctrl+space and get a list of absolutely everything that's in the contextually relevant public API. So much faster than introspection. If I'm using an object initializer to instantiate something, I can hit ctrl+space inside the object initializer to get a list of all the available public properties -- no typing the names required. No having to remember the order of arguments of methods, or even their types. Autocomplete means I can usually get away with somewhere between zero and three keypresses to get exactly what I want highlighted in the intellisense.
Forget efficiency via vim/emacs keybindings. Static typing + a strong intellisense/intellisense clone lets me code literally at the speed of my thoughts most of the time. I end up feeling like I'm stuck in molasses the few times I have to write some JS.
> It is true that you have to write more tests in a dynamic language than in a static typed language but as tests often convey the information of what was intended to be done much better than code, I don't consider this a drawback.
I understand your point, but for me, the extra tests I write in dynamic langs just end up making me feel like I've duplicated the work of the static checker in other languages, and in a non-reusable way.
With VS and C#, I can hit ctrl+space and get a list of absolutely everything that's in the contextually relevant public API. So much faster than introspection. If I'm using an object initializer to instantiate something, I can hit ctrl+space inside the object initializer to get a list of all the available public properties -- no typing the names required. No having to remember the order of arguments of methods, or even their types. Autocomplete means I can usually get away with somewhere between zero and three keypresses to get exactly what I want highlighted in the intellisense.
Forget efficiency via vim/emacs keybindings. Static typing + a strong intellisense/intellisense clone lets me code literally at the speed of my thoughts most of the time. I end up feeling like I'm stuck in molasses the few times I have to write some JS.
> It is true that you have to write more tests in a dynamic language than in a static typed language but as tests often convey the information of what was intended to be done much better than code, I don't consider this a drawback.
I understand your point, but for me, the extra tests I write in dynamic langs just end up making me feel like I've duplicated the work of the static checker in other languages, and in a non-reusable way.