First to market has never ever been about using a dynamically typed language. Getting the ideas from talk to concepts, testing, bugfixing and marketing takes va

First to market has never ever been about using a dynamically typed language. Getting the ideas from talk to concepts, testing, bugfixing and marketing takes vastly more time than actually developing the code. So while Python might enable me to show my prototype on Monday, while that Java version wouldn't be seen until Friday, there still is quite a lot of time before you can say it's properly released. Where these "fast" to develop languages shines are throwaway prototypes. For some people their ideas flow out much faster with dynamically typed language. But it is all too well known that even though the manager said you could throw it away, they change their mind because "it's basically finished, right?". That said, you are spot on. Initial development is likely not where you want to focus at all, for any kind of project that needs to be maintained for more than a few months.