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Saw the headline, first though "I'll bet this is about dynamically typed languages", and lo and behold

> At a recent RubyConf...

EDIT: just wanted to add that when I code in dynamically typed languages I'm inclined to do the same thing. Without rigidity provided by a strong type system it's too easy to mess things up. That's why I prefer strongly typed languages so I can benefit from the structure they enforce.

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Dave Cheney is well known in the go community, and works at Heptio. I don't think dynamic typing has much to do with this article.

The author says Chad Fowler proposed this idea at RubyConf

Yes, but the author of this article, which is discussing the idea, was written by Dave Cheney.

Don't confuse static/dynamic typing and weak/strong typing. A language can be both dynamically and strongly typed (Python, for example). The thing you like about a "strongly typed language" is the static typing, meaning a variable's type can't change once it's been created.

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