> I sometimes wish I could tighten down some Clojure code with static type guarantees. These are in small, remote portions of the code that have intricate algorithms. Static types would be very useful there. But that's the exception. In general, I like the flexible information model approach of Clojure better than the statically-typed approach of Haskell.

I feel the opposite way. I find a dynamic approach useful in some places, but in most places I miss having static typing to help catch errors faster and give my IDE better auto-completions and make exploring new APIs faster without constantly needing to look things up. And rather than small intricate algorithms, I find the most important place for static typing to be when making big refactorings that span the whole codebase. I think my ideal language would have static typing by default but you could disable it in places.