Static typing forces you to you deal with a large fraction of trivial bugs before you can run.
This phrasing makes it sound like a bad thing. I would say: Static analysis helps you to find and correct a large fraction of trivial bugs without even running the program.
This phrasing makes it sound like a bad thing. I would say: Static analysis helps you to find and correct a large fraction of trivial bugs without even running the program.
(Static typing is a subset of static analysis.)
edited.