This post and the one that prompted it both seem to be begging the question. I don't see greater percentage use of static vs. dynamic languages now compared to

This post and the one that prompted it both seem to be begging the question. I don't see greater percentage use of static vs. dynamic languages now compared to ten or twenty years ago. There is a lot of interesting research into strong static type systems but that has been going on for ages (ML family of languages). In fact, I'd say if anything there is a big surge every decade or so in dynamic languages when a new problem space emerges. 90s - Perl, Javascript 00s - Ruby and Objective-C resurgence 10s - ES6 and JS related languages Once an area matures, the paranoid static type people come in and harden things. Then people realize they're getting nothing done and add DSLs on top for flexibility. And on it goes.