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by Guthur 3943 days ago
How does being dynamically typed seal it's fate?

Dynamic typing does not seem to be on the way out at all, cases in point; Javascript (everywhere), Python, Ruby to name the big ones.

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Javascript will probably be around for a while but Python and Ruby have been constantly shrinking in mind share and buzz these past years (mostly because of Go but also because there are now faster, statically typed languages that subsume them).

The simple truth is that statically typed languages have been much better at improving in areas where dynamically typed languages used to be the only ones shining than the other way around.

In a few years, we'll look back at dynamically typed languages with the same fondness as we do Pascal: it was a good idea at the time but we do better now.

> Javascript will probably be around for a while but Python and Ruby have been constantly shrinking in mind share and buzz these past years

At least in the scientific and data analysis communities, Python is exploding. I'd say it's neck and neck with R. R's infrastructure outside data analysis is weak but improving. Go isn't even a part of the conversation.

Can't speak to Ruby, but as the "big data" hype cycle continues Python will continue to blow up.

For what figures there are your claim has no basis.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

Top 10 is full of dynamic languages, Go is not in the top 20 and all the languages you claim are fading are climbing in this particular metric.