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Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success by Barrin92 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @12:39PM (#21410696)
my guess would be that compiled languages are very heavily used in enterprise environments and companies will look for corporate long-term backing before they commit resources to a language.

Dynamic languages are more generally used and often have been favoured by small companies and teams, so the barrier is lower.

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Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success by dwoozle on Thursday October 31, 2019 @12:51PM (#21410846)
What does “dynamic languages” mean?
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Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success by Barrin92 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @01:00PM (#21410958)
dynamic languages are languages who perform many central operations, like type checking at run-time rather than at compile type. They facilitate changing the object system, and a host of other things too long for the post. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming_language)

I was playing a little lose with language because the OP was talking about interpreted and compiled languages, and not all interpreted languages are necessarily dynamic, but in practise the fault lines are about the same.

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