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It’s easier until you hit one of the cases where a particular value is interpreted as a different type, possibly in a very confusing context. I’ve seen that bite enough people that I end up quoting strings to avoid confusion.



It’s also extremely hard to learn as a beginner.

“Hey, I deleted a character in a string and now I am getting this weird schema validation exception”.


Or “Why did it break when I changed the version from 3.7 to 3.7.1?”




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