[jghn]

> I can't imagine how this trend reverses course now.

That's exactly what those/you dynamic zealots were telling people like me 15 years ago :-)

But yes, I largely agree with you. My $0.02 is that the larger pendulum over the decades is a trend towards static but being less and less visible to the end user, increasing the static typing while reducing the boilerplate and overhead on the part of the developer. Think things like type inference and the sort. Even as a static typing fan I don't miss the days when literally every variable needed an explicit type annotation.