> Look at the web in 2016, the technology is a complete disarray So that's pretty much been that way since the Java plugin for Netscape Navigator. That starte

> Look at the web in 2016, the technology is a complete disarray So that's pretty much been that way since the Java plugin for Netscape Navigator. That started the plugin battle which morphed into the mess we're in today. > Look at the game industry in 2016, where C++ is thrown around as the the cause and solution to all life's problems. Software written in C/C++ often have LUA/Python/Perl plugins to add scriptability. > The advantage of static typing is obvious to me; the more my computer understands of my code, the less work I have to do. Nope. Computers don't understand code, they just processes it and point out where your errors are, there's very little understanding. Type checking is really just rattling off a checklist to validate the type being passed around is the type that's expected.