[snrji]

It was not mainstream back then.

I agree that most popular dynamic are quite terrible. But, honestly, I think the real problem is not the particular implementations, but the whole idea of dynamic typing. At first it did make sense, but now that compiler writers have figured out "cheap" and general type inference, I don't see the point anymore.

However, I use Python on a daily basis because I have no decent alternative for the libraries I use.