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The largest recent change in Python is adding support for type annotations [1].

TypeScript is now the #7 language on GitHub.

Matz has said that a major goal of Ruby 3.0 is optional static types [3].

Facebook has reportedly ported large amounts of their PHP code to Hack, which adds static types to PHP.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html

[2]: https://octoverse.github.com/projects#languages

[3]: https://blog.heroku.com/ruby-3-by-3



The poster above mine said that languages that didn't ship out of the box with mandatory typing had a limited lifespan.

Indeed grafting types onto python, ruby, and even php seems more likely than people stopping using.




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