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The Tiobe Index front page used to run a monthly historical comparison of statically typed languages against dynamic ones, but removed it about 6 months ago. Th
by vorg 12y ago
The Tiobe Index front page used to run a monthly historical comparison of statically typed languages against dynamic ones, but removed it about 6 months ago. There was a clear reversal in the trend away from dynamically typed languages 5 to 10 years back. I see dynamic languages as the 2000's version of the 1990's visual programming fad. Only one or two of those visual programming products (Visual Basic and maybe Delphi) survived, and the same will probably happen with dynamic languages: I'm picking Python and Javascript will be the only ones around in another decade.
- bunderbunder 12y agoI don't think the RAD languages really died, their most useful features just become so standard that they stopped being notable. Visual Basic .NET and C# have more-or-less exactly the same tooling for developing UIs, for example, and on the Apple side of things there's still Interface Builder. I could see something similar happening with dynamic languages. Over the past decade, the things that once irritated me about working in static languages have largely been addressed as features like generics, type inference, and interface polymorphism became more common. But I can't imagine dynamic languages will ever go away, if anything because they're still so successful in the scripting domain.
- philippeback 12y agoDoing Pharo Smalltalk here. A couple of decades of existence (Smalltalk-80, Squeak), a couple more ahead. But well, not on Tiobe top slot.