Comment by temporallobe

Even though I learned C/C++ in school, I started off my career with a typeless language, Perl. I loved it for its simplicity and power to quickly spool up working code, but realized it was problematic to use for large projects for many of the same reasons you state. I then switched to a Java project and was immediately frustrated with types because of how verbose it was, but after a while I came to appreciate just how beautiful and pragmatic it was, especially in its ability to help avoid so many runtime bugs that have been the bane of my existence in the Javascript, Clojure, and Ruby world.