Comment by jimbokun

I completely disagree.

It's possible to write code so succinct that making it more verbose would make it more understandable.

But overly verbose code is far, far more common. And having a naturally succinct language does not stop you from keeping your code verbose. Just gives you more ways to make your code succinct that aren't possible in non-succinct languages.

(Not this is orthogonal to weaker or stronger compile time type systems. Type systems that catch more errors at compile time are very useful. But some strongly compile-time typed languages are still quite succinct.)