Oh, wow, given this unnecessarily combative start, am I about to finally read conclusive proof that will stop that over sixty years old flamewar?
> I think we are seeing a people abandon loose typing because the industry has observed that loose typing is harmful to even small, a few thousand lines, projects.
People are not abandoning or adopting anything, both static and dynamic typing have existed for as long as computers have been a thing. Hell, LISP is older than pretty much every statically typed language still widely used, methinks.
> Static typing catches bugs. It makes your code easier to maintain. It makes your code safer to refactor. It checks your code to ensure correctness. It provides documentation about variables. It reduces the amount of code you have to read in order to understand a specific piece of code. These are empirically good things that you do not get in loosely typed languages.
Where's this empiric evidence of all these advantages you mention? I'm a bit shocked that I managed to miss it... And that so did half the industry. Such conclusive study would have ended that and the industry would have coalesced into this unquestionably superior type system you mention.
> An untyped value does not carry any information or explicit assertions about the variable. Take a URL for example: A "string" URL does not carry any information about weather or not the url string is a valid URL.
Can't do that with static languages either. Call it a type (or class), call it a parsing function, ultimately the result is the same. You need something to ensure that it is an url. Those exist in dynamically typed languages and are not obviated in static ones.
> Types dramatically reduce the amount of code you have to read in order to understand a given piece of your application.
Conversely, types substantially increase the amount of overall code one has to write.
These has never been a matter of opinions. The flamewar still rages after decades because what's the factually best type system hasn't been found. Hell, we might be likely closer to prove that that question has no answer.
In short, ultimately everything you said was just, like, your opinion, man.
