> It's not any better if business trade-offs make another decision better. I'm sorry, but cleaning your windows with Windex instead of tap water is then "not a

> It's not any better if business trade-offs make another decision better. I'm sorry, but cleaning your windows with Windex instead of tap water is then "not any better if business trade-offs make tap water better". I am just not sure what you are arguing for: Static typing is better, except for when you don't have static typing? Some folks here are in the position to choose their current, or shape a collective future landscape, and for those static typing is a consideration. You mention PHP a few times, but I think this is actually a good example for something that has been pushed away in favor of better things. My impression is that at least the bigger software corporations have moved away from PHP if they ever used it to begin with. Even Facebook, one of PHP's biggest users, replaced it with their own so-named "Hack" eventually, which is apparently a PHP-derivate with "both dynamic typing and static typing" according to Wikipedia.