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The second motivation for a non fully static type system is that some code may
be hard to type. JSON is a de-facto standard format for configuration and Nickel
aims at being straightforwardly convertible to and from JSON. If it were to be
fully statically typed, it would have to type things like heterogenuous lists:
fully statically typed, it would have to type things like heterogeneous lists:
`[{ field: 1 }, { differentField: 2}]`, which is doable but not trivial (see the
[comparison with Dhall](#Dhall:-powerful-type-system)). Nickel made the choice
of offering typing capabilities for common idioms, but when the type system