>Static typing is far better than dynamic typing. There is nothing you can express in a dynamically typed language which you cannot express in a statically typed language, and most of those things can be expressed just as succinctly thanks to type inference. Further, to use your own words, static typing provides debugging "at compile time or link time, not at runtime."

Most things require little change but when you need to add a method to a class, static typing starts to get in the way. Node.js express framework could not have been made in a static language nor could rails find_by_* method system.