Whoa, I'm not attacking anything. I like C# a lot, but I think I'm realistic about it -- it's nobody's perfect language, except in the case of "what's a widely-

Whoa, I'm not attacking anything. I like C# a lot, but I think I'm realistic about it -- it's nobody's perfect language, except in the case of "what's a widely-adopted, multi-paradigm language that I can do typical OO stuff in, but also all that cool dynamic and FP stuff they talk about on hackernews all the time? Also, my coworkers need to be able to understand it?" That's why at the end of my reply I say I think it's one of the best "workhorse" languages. Anyway, I'm sure others will point this out, but var is NOT dynamic typing. It's type inference, which you seem to know, judging by the last sentence in that paragraph. Dynamic typing doesn't just mean that no type is declared -- it means that no type is inferred (by the compiler).