I phrase it this way: It's a lot easier to understand, say, decorators in python than annotations in Java. The other thing is that a lot of the dynamic langua

I phrase it this way: It's a lot easier to understand, say, decorators in python than annotations in Java. The other thing is that a lot of the dynamic languages are getting cool features to support static dynamism really well. Protocols and literal types being my two favorites in python, which allow statically-verifiable duck typing, and argument controlled return types respectively.