I think developers all over are converging on the idea that we need type safety. Python has typing now, TS is JS with typing (pardon me for the oversimplification), and golang which is taking the world by a storm is a statically typed language.

Also, ease of typing has come a long way today with Type Inference in most languages with C++ leading the way with auto keyword and Java implementing local type inference.

Looks like we're Going back to the Future with static typing.