I wonder also if that possibility of unsafety just doesn&#x27;t matter much to a lot of people. After all, lisps have been around forever and even today JS and Clojure are popular when the possibility of doing unsafe things is extremely easy in a language where there are no type checks. So perhaps many developers just don&#x27;t worry so much about compiler checks and instead enjoy the flexibility of &quot;weak&quot; or &quot;no&quot; typing, at the possible expense of safety. And maybe all of that is gradually changing. I really really love Clojure, but find static typing very useful; but also, it&#x27;s great to throw it away when you feel confident enough to do so, and perhaps a lot of developers just like this, shall I call it &quot;cowboy&quot;, style?