Bruno and John's arguments are classic examples of the straw man fallacy. In my concrete examples I made no reference to static type systems (or any type systems at all, for that matter). I merely pointed out that by allowing the programmer to provide compile-time information in the form of exports and declarative forms, a world of possibilities opens up.
Of course, static information can always be *inferred* from dynamic. That's basically how JS engines work, but raising that up to some ideal principle is foolish dogmatism. They accuse me of advocating decades-old technology, but it is purely dynamic JS that is decades old. "Evolve or die" is the way. The "we don't need no stinkin' classes" argument is counter-productive, counter-intuitive reactionary garbage, and quite frankly it bores me. : P
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