Can we bring dynamically typed languages back into trend?

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@ParadaCarleton

This used to be true, but doing this with static typing is no longer especially difficult, because of how much type inference algorithms have advanced.

The difficulty of writing code is only a part of the issue, how easy is it to run code? What is the workflow, the REPL experience in those languages?

@ParadaCarleton

The fastest-growing languages I can think of off the top of my head are Dart (just switched in 2.0), Zig, Rust, Kotlin, Crystal, and TypeScript, all of which have static types.

I’m pretty sure noone I work with has ever heard of any of those languages, except Rust, and only because I am talking about it. The only languages of note are Matlab, Python, C++, Fortran and Javascript.