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I agree, and I'm pretty sure there is a correlation between those two axes, although there are a lot of subtleties that can make someone prefer dynamic+SQL or static+NoSQL. Speaking for myself, I'm completely in the static+SQL camp.

I suspect that it would be somewhat harder to find static+NoSQL combinations than dynamic+SQL, since it's easier to use a dynamic language over an SQL database (types in SQL don't match 1:1 those in languages anyway, so queries are traversed by column index in both static and dynamic languages; this means that SQL's "static typing" won't affect your code) than a static language over a NoSQL database (suddenly you start to lose guarantees about what goes in every field, and checks must be performed).




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