When we're talking about strong type systems and classes of bugs eliminated just because the program compiled (a la OCaml, Rust, Haskell)... yes, newer is bette

When we're talking about strong type systems and classes of bugs eliminated just because the program compiled (a la OCaml, Rust, Haskell)... yes, newer is better. Your argument isn't universal; something being older doesn't say much about its quality either.