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    What kind of compensation do you mean? My experience, having worked in C syntax languages and Smalltalk, is exactly the opposite. Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 5:59
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    You can add type checking for dynamic languages. See, for instance, how this is done for python: pypi.python.org/pypi/optypecheck Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 14:44
  • Python has inline unit tests called doc tests that are automatically tested. Doc tests go further in providing documentation than types do as they give you an example of code usage. Commented May 26, 2018 at 14:54
  • Modern ides for Python(Pydev,Pycharm) can use type inference to tell you the type of things without you having to type it explicitly. There are also ways of logging previous calls to a function/methods although its not mainstream. If you set up a breakpoint in a function you can access the locals() in the Python REPL(Pydev & Pycharm connect the REPL to the current context), and developing your application while its still running not only allows you to access all the types, but the values. Commented May 26, 2018 at 15:39