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I think this analog is close to the dynamic vs static debate. However, there are probably more factors to consider, such as competence of the driver (will the driver even care to slow down?), location of the intersection (an intersection just around a shallow corner) and value of the driver's car (does the driver care about a little damage?).

In my experience similar arguments hold for software developers. Especially caring can be a big factor; i.e. the "move fast, break things" mentality.

I've been back and forth between typed and untyped languages (somewhere in the range of haskell and tcl) and personally prefer less typing when hacking things together and more typing for high quality software. I'm currently working an infra job where we use both ansible and terraform. They're not direct competitors, but I tend to prefer terraform over ansible when possible, as terraform gives me more "static" guarantees, which translates to more confidence when we apply our code.