It matters how you say something. This doesn't leave much room for discussion. That's why this would attract criticism. Even though your points are valid they are not beyond discussion. Personally I prefer interpreted languages, Because of the faster edit-run cyclus. Compilation Time can be excessive. I prefer debugging over extensive testing all the time because testing takes time all the time and debugging only sometimes. Now testing is still necessary for production level applications pre-release because you don't want to make people angry. But otherwise.... I don't like obligatory typing because I find the extra effort of specifying the types to usually not be worth the effort of typing.