Why Static Typing Came Back — Richard Feldman

HN commenters cite it as a clear account of the trade-offs between static and dynamic typing and why the industry is swinging back to types.

Richard Feldman's GOTO Copenhagen 2022 talk on why dynamic languages like Python, Ruby, PHP and JavaScript rose in the 1990s and why each now has a popular static type checker. It argues that modern static typing recovers the advantages that made dynamic languages attractive.