alt Hacker NewsClojure was explicitly designed to be dynamic. It’s a feature, not a bug.
https://clojure.org/about/dynamic
Until you get better at not making mistakes that the training wheels of a static type system “protect” you from, lean into the REPL as a means to build up small correct expressions into larger ones.
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"Until you get better" is such an arrogant take.
It's not just about skill. It's about maintainability, ease of refactor, and modeling invariants in your code in a way that they can be checked by the machine (the compiler) without every single developer having to maintain them in their head.
Clojure even knows this is an issue and many people use `spec` to sort of retrofit static typing.
Dynamic typing was, is and always will be a mistake. There is nothing you can do with dynamic typing that you cannot do with a sufficiently powerful static type system - and it doesn't have to be something absurd like Haskell's. You basically just need structural typing and type inference and some type-level programming constructs.
The worst part about Clojure is the community. Rich Hickey has cult-like status and the only thing clojurians can do is parrot his inane commentary.
It’s both.