Yeah, this is how I see it, too. Sort of a gradual convergence. On the static side, Java and especially C# are simply _better_ than they used to be. Type infer

Yeah, this is how I see it, too. Sort of a gradual convergence. On the static side, Java and especially C# are simply _better_ than they used to be. Type inference is great - I can just write var x = new List<Thing>() rather than having to stupidly repeat the type e.g. List<Thing> x = new List<Thing>(). Add in generics, and lambdas, and about a dozen other things that have now become widespread, and it's really a different game than 10 years ago. Coming the other way, I never expected to see Intellisense-like autocompletion for languages like Ruby or Python. It honestly feels magical. Refactoring has gotten much better to where I can pull methods up and down inheritance chains using PyCharm or other mainstream IDEs. I actually think it's mobile that's pushed people back toward static. Swift, ObjC, Java, and Kotlin are all static and there's less emphasis on this "one language" idea that drove a lot of people toward trying to use the same language (JS/TS) for their React front-ends and node backends.