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by tlrobinson 914 days ago
Agreed, when Ruby became popular it was primarily competing against languages with verbose and rigid static type systems like Java. That is no longer the case, and the benefits of safety and developer experience provided by a good type system outweighs the cost.
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See also this talk: Why Static Typing Came Back, Richard Feldman, GOTO 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tml94je2edk&list=PLEx5khR4g7...