> This boggles the mind. I am using typed languages since I can think. I never once recall an instant where I was saying "Uh uh, this type signature is driving me craaazy". Like seriously, I don't even know what articles like this are talking about.
This was OVERWHELMINGLY the sentiment on hacker news a decade ago. Strongly statically typed languages were NOT WELCOME on this website.
A lot of that can probably be attributed to major advances in type system ergonomics. A verbose, clunky type system with poor inference can easily be worse than none at all. Ten years ago, there just weren't that many popular, practical languages with really good type systems. Now there are quite a few.
This was OVERWHELMINGLY the sentiment on hacker news a decade ago. Strongly statically typed languages were NOT WELCOME on this website.