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>> dynamic typing bubble >Could you explain this? I'm not aware of such a thing at all? Around 2005 - 2010 there was a massive amount of proselytism on the int
by McCirculaire 10y ago
>> dynamic typing bubble
>Could you explain this? I'm not aware of such a thing at all?
Around 2005 - 2010 there was a massive amount of proselytism on the internet in favour of dynamic languages. The likes of Steve Yegge, DHH, Zed Shaw, Mark Pilgrim, Why the Lucky Stiff, Paul Graham (with lisp) and others were constantly pushing new blog posts, articles, books about the merits of dynamic languages and new teaching material and if you were to read HN or reddit from those years you'd think it was the end of statically typed languages. You couldn't spend a day without seeing things like Ruby on Rails pop up on slashdot and other media.
Fast forward to today :
All the new languages that have gained internet fame in the past years are static. Go, Rust, Typescript, Dart. People still use lots of Java and C#. Meanwhile big companies like Dropbox are abandoning languages like Python. New projects are written in Go despite being the company that employs Guido van Rossum. Nobody talks about Google caring about python anymore either. The dynamic typing "rockstar programmers" have all but disappeared from the internet and stopped blogging/writing articles/writing books, with only one exception, Zed Shaw. The rest have either completely erased their internet presence or just become utterly silent.
There really is a moment on the internet that could be described as the dynamic bubble. Although I'd say, "dynamic echochamber" is more accurate.
- xapata 10y agoOr perhaps they don't have to yell about it anymore, because so many people have been convinced.