What does /prog/ think about static typing

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7jf7x/as_soon_as_we_started_programming_we_found_to_our/c06tmax

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Also the "erasure" process is confusing as hell. I don't know if it's possible to fuck up generics any worse than C++, but Java has definitely put in a good effort.