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> I don't think ... serious people... argued that.

Static vs dynamic typing is no less ubiquitous in online forums over the decades than tabs vs spaces and vim vs emacs.

I feel like I see all of these debates far less than I used to? Well I don't see anyone arguing about vim and emacs anymore at all, and spaces have mostly won over tabs, and static typing has mostly won over dynamic, with the holdouts being comparative novices and people who program in less modern environments, like in academia and at smaller companies.

Yeah, we are definitely past the hey day of these debates, though you can still find them.

e.g. Gradual typing was since added to PHP and Python which ended some debate like how linting tools shut down a lot of whitespace debates.

Spaces over tabs? Since when?

i could be wrong, but it was enforced as the default at several places I worked, and most editors now have the option of the tab key inserting spaces to bridge the gap. (I don't care about the actual debate; just, I thought I had noticed it had mostly gone in this direction)

I was surprised, that was not my impression at all. But thank you for your answer!

Are the banks and trading firms that use e.g. Clojure/Elixir/Erlang/Python "comparative novices" or "less modern", whatever that means? These are some of the most sophisticated shops I've ever seen, doing some serious software engineering. I like static types as much as the next person and have written probably more Rust and Scala than anything else, but this seems maybe a bit of a gross generalization.

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