That was true when they were talking it up too and was acknowledged as the final frontier by boosters (look at the Yegge article on this topic, for instance, wh

That was true when they were talking it up too and was acknowledged as the final frontier by boosters (look at the Yegge article on this topic, for instance, which spends a fair bit of time on the topic and how it could be improved http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-strike-back.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-st...). If anything, those tools have made truly impressive strides even in hard cases like JS and Ruby.