I think the distinction is between statically typed and dynamically typed languages, which for other reasons lines up with compiled vs. interpreted. A lot of t

I think the distinction is between statically typed and dynamically typed languages, which for other reasons lines up with compiled vs. interpreted. A lot of the benefit of statically typed languages are the tooling around them (IDE integration/autocomplete/error messages). These represent a fairly expensive (resource wise) area of investment and so the resources of a large company has high ROI.