It's the programming environment, not the programming language(thesephist.com)
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It's the programming environment, not the programming language
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It's both. If the popularity of new languages is any measure, static languages have quietly won the static v. dynamic war over the last few years: TypeScript, Kotlin, Swift, etc. Also considering the onslaught of static type checkers and compilers for otherwise dynamic languages such as Ruby, Python, etc. One must conclude static type analysis is everything, or at least it appears to be. IDEs are for the most part measured by how well they incorporate static analysis with features such as deterministic code completion, navigation, usage searching, refactoring, and the like. New IDEs for old static languages are finally arriving such as CLion. Not that IDEs can't be built for dynamic languages, they can, but they tend to be less efficient and less capable because static type analysis is so much more difficult to achieve due to the inherent nondeterminism.
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