>The pendulum is quickly swinging towards dynamic typing. Programmers are leaving the statically typed languages like C++, Java, and C# in favor of the dynamica

>The pendulum is quickly swinging towards dynamic typing. Programmers are leaving the statically typed languages like C++, Java, and C# in favor of the dynamically typed languages like Ruby and Python. Even though this article is recent, it reads like it's a good several years out of date. From where I sit, Ruby and Python are incumbents and the trend is moving toward typed languages of several varieties. From ML variants to Scala to the "streamlined functional-ish" languages like Swift, Kotlin, whatever C# is morphing into, to Typescript, and so on. He presents TDD as a convenient way to escape the shackles of static-typing. I think many, myself included, would regard compiler-enforced type safety as a way to leverage a machine to ease the significant burden of writing and maintaining a huge test suite. Not to mention the productivity boost provided by the comparatively richer tooling that static typing enables.