The implicit assumption is that one should participate in these arguments. This is assumption is false.
You can just as easily
- ignore all the trends,
- not participate in abstract static vs dynamic typing arguments, since they are meaningless without talking about concrete languages & related tooling, and have been meaningless for decades now,
- get work done in whatever language you like.
Topics like this are just adding to the noise and are disservice to the Julia community.
A good rule of thumb for most programmers who care about the quality of their work is to keep an eye what Microsoft is doing, and either ignore it or do the opposite.
Some things become a “trend” for sound technical reasons, but most trends are generated by astronomical quantities of money being poured into some technology. The joy of using free software includes the option to ignore this.
It was never taken away. We still have it. 