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I like Elixir quite a bit, and it doesn't have a strong type system. The pattern matching removes a lot of the pain of weak types.

Could you point out where the author of this post even came close to suggesting that Rails is for great developers who don't need static typing?

Or did you accidentally post this unrelated opinion in the wrong thread?

I'm responding to the article that the author linked to, which does mention static typing. This comment is an attempt at a hypothesis for why some developers dismiss the importance of such features/tools.

I found this equally true for the other side of argument too. Some people choose to ignore that Polymorphsim is a dynamic typed behavior. (Its general being multiple dispatch.) And the faith to compiler seems not come from the understanding of what a compiler is. The author of the original post doesnt seem to recognize Java is also a slow, interpreted language. Haha.