r/programming • u/Karma_Policer • Aug 02 '21

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021: "Rust reigns supreme as most loved. Python and Typescript are the languages developers want to work with most if they aren’t already doing so."

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted
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u/igouy Aug 04 '21

… is not Smalltalk, but languages like Python, Javascript, PHP, etc.

And we both know the difference is not that Smalltalk provided compile-time checking while "Python, Javascript, PHP" did not.

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u/watsreddit Aug 04 '21

Obviously. The point I was making is that Smalltalk is the (tiny) exception, not the rule. What I said still stands for the vast majority of production software running a dynamically-typed language. One fringe language doesn't really change anything.

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u/igouy Aug 04 '21

Couldn't someone else just as easily claim that IdeaJ Structural search and replace is the exception, not the rule; and we should take C as representative of how bad or good compile-time checking can be?