Article on programming language adoption (x-post from /r/programming)

[bearophile]

Dicebot:

> Stop the world, I want to get out!

The article linked by John Colvin is not much interesting.

Regarding that comment about unit testing and types there could 
be several explanations, like:
- For their kind of coding static typing is not that needed/good.
- They only have experience with languages with inflexible static 
typing.
- Dynamic typing plus many unittests is "good enough" for certain 
coding purposes.

Eventually I think the most used languages will grow a flexible 
type system, gradual typing, and we'll see the dynamic and static 
typing mix so much that the discussion will become mostly 
academic :-) See Typed Scheme, the 'dynamic' keyword added to C#, 
TypeScript, and so on.

Bye.
bearophile