The general industry is in fact starting to care about static typing; I've seen it happening lately. The last batch of hot languages included a lot of untyped l

The general industry is in fact starting to care about static typing; I've seen it happening lately. The last batch of hot languages included a lot of untyped languages like Python, Ruby, and JS. But the latest batch of rising star languages are typed, eg Go, Rust, Scala. And C/C++, C#, and Java are still all going strong. People are no longer buying the myth that the benefits of static typing can only be gained at the expense of heaps of boilerplate. The gospel is slowly spreading.