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> We need more science in our computer science, which means more experiments and more results like this.

There is an ongoing experiment wrt the usability of programming languages, libraries, frameworks, concepts, ... It's called the market.



Counterexample: JavaScript. It is the best demonstration I know of that our choice of languages and tools is mostly based on historical accident rather than any technical criteria.


Market is testing for many more different features than just usability, and as such is rather useless if you want to test a single thing.


What are the market's conclusions regarding dynamic and static typing ?




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