The tide seems to be turning against dynamic languages because developers are getting tired of the poor performance, fragility and maintenance difficulty. We ju

The tide seems to be turning against dynamic languages because developers are getting tired of the poor performance, fragility and maintenance difficulty. We just needed to see some innovation in the static typing camp: the transition from Objective-C to Swift is a great example. A typical app can be made pretty reliable with enough testing effort and a good process, so I'm not surprised that large apps have been written in dynamically typed languages, although I am now curious which apps you had in mind. Can't think of anything the scale of e.g. Photoshop, Oracle or Linux. Re STL: Really? :) I'll take missing hash-tables (dictionaries are fine) any day over no library. I don't know which period you're referring to with the ifdef hell, but at least for the past decade I can't think of any STL compatibility issues. Perhaps you can be more specific here? In any case, JS never had such issues because back then it was being used to make text blink. Now that it's facing more challenges we start seeing the issues. Re working on browsers: you're not a web developer. I will say though that Mozilla pushing this web-everything agenda is disappointing. The FirefoxOS lesson has not been learned...