> In the 20th century we were big on static typing too. I don't think we were. I don't even think we truly understood the practical difference between statical

> In the 20th century we were big on static typing too. I don't think we were. I don't even think we truly understood the practical difference between statically and dynamically typed languages. But even so, back then, it was reasonable to claim that while statically typed languages have the advantage of performance and correctness, they are much more verbose than dynamically typed languages. Today, this is no longer true. We know how to design languages that have the strengths of both statically and dynamically typed languages (see Kotlin and Swift for the best incarnations of these concepts). There is really no good argument in favor of picking a dynamically typed language.