> You don't get the program crashing from mistyping as one would in C.

Uh, isn't that exactly what happens with runtime type checking? Otherwise what can you do if you detect a type error at runtime other than crash?

In C the compiler tries to detect all type errors at compile time, and if you do manage to fool the compiler into compiling badly typed code, it won't necessarily crash, it'll be undefined behavior (which includes crashing but can also do worse).