[flavio81]

". Large programs written in statically typed languages are orders of magnitute more readable, more maintainable, easier to understand, and far less error-prone, than programs written in dynamically typed languages."

That's your belief, not a fact.

> The recent surge in popularity of dynamically typed languages like JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc, had been a source of horror and frustration to me. It feels like a huge segment industry is throwing away decades of advancement made in programming language research,

It is exactly the opposite. Mainstream programming languages are recently catching up with features that are more advanced but weren't popular before, like functional programming, metaprogramming and dynamic programming.