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But for me, it's currently typecast as a firmly middle of the road feature set.

Yeah, because a language with 4 different typecast operators is type safe.

> Women should stop buying video games that don't portray women in a good way / reinforce stereotypes / try to typecast characters. Women?

This is somewhat off-topic, but has anyone felt like they are "typecast" into a certain industry or job position by their LinkedIn profiles? What if you don't want to stay with the same industry for the rest of your life?

The corporate world is deeply negative and anti-humanistic and will typecast you to the lowest calibre of person consistent with your resume. The issue in English is that the floor is lower.

While I agree fixed types are more performant, not dealing with types makes the code more fun because you're not held back from running it because you forgot a typecast. Tests are essential, but the flipside is that tests are quicker to write in a duck-typed language, too.

Or watching 21st century American movies/TV shows that still typecast Asian men as asexual action stars / comedic relief. If I had to choose between either this 'success' or being a white male with less success, I'd easily choose the latter.

While law and finance don't necessarily suffer from the same knowledge turnover rate as programming, they do suffer typecast-inducing problems. Lateral movement among subfields is extremely difficult.

When OP said "I would be a disaster in the coding and software testing departments, but would be more successful in a technical writing, communications and PR role", I interpreted it as a concern about autistic people being typecast as techies. People are really excited to help autistic people join the work force, but most of the efforts I see are directed at technical jobs.