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Yeah it's an extinction event in the evolutionary cycle of computing. Im not sure when was the last one.

I think that excessive dynamism is getting less attractive when you account for all the costs it brings with it and that the vast majority of the benefits can be achieved with static metaprogramming, in a more readable and safer manner.




When we lost type safety in systems programming to C and C++.




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