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If Dan Luu's article on static vs dynamic types [0] is to be believed, there's no significant difference between either paradigms.

This largely jives with my personal experiences using Python, Typescript, Clojure and Scala. This also jives with casual observations of the product landscape, where for every good product built in something like Python, you can find a good product built in Java.

[0] https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/



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