Look at JavaScript though. A few years back it was all about loose typing, mutation, OOP (with prototype), etc and now TypeScript is king, React and Rx are prom

Look at JavaScript though. A few years back it was all about loose typing, mutation, OOP (with prototype), etc and now TypeScript is king, React and Rx are promoting functional idioms (immutability, purity). So I think that can teach us that when a language can be typed and functional there could be a vibrant community that uses it that way while there’s another that doesn’t