I've generally felt that each shines in different areas. Static typing is best for lower-level infrastructure and shared API's, while dynamic is better for glui

I've generally felt that each shines in different areas. Static typing is best for lower-level infrastructure and shared API's, while dynamic is better for gluing these all together toward the "top" of the stack, closer to the UI and biz logic. The problem is that languages tend to be all one or the other so that we have to make choice. What's needed is a language (or language interface convention) that can straddle both. A given class or library can be "locked down" type-wise to various degrees as needed.