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Most of the people I know who program in JavaScript are using JavaScript, I'm kind of the odd ball for using Typescript though I hope that's changing. JavaScript still has most of the market share for languages that compile to JavaScript. There is a huge web community out there that still haven't been exposed to very much static typing, by numbers at least.

Machine learning was done in mostly C++ before Python took pretty much the entire domain. Mind you, this is mostly cultural, I don't think it has anything to do with types (more like C++ is a PITA, python is much easier to use).

My only claim, however, is that static languages haven't really made much inroads since 2008, and it feels like there is a lot of regression going on (e.g. with machine learning).



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