So much that you can see ripples everywhere of late binding languages being slowly (not saying the transition is complete) replaced by static languages. Even the one true bastion of late binders, web development, is seeing massively increasing adoptions of languages like Typescript on the frontend, and languages like Go on the backend (see adoption at Youtube, Dropbox and so on).
Outside of web development, and simple trivial admin scripts, the other major source of late bound software was.. Apple Objective C. Which is getting replaced by Swift, a language that heavily favors static typing and functional paradigms.
> There's a million Rails and Python apps out there, so basically this "opinion" of yours is not bound to reality.
There's a million of trivial CRUD apps that don't do much of worth and whose death the world would not really mind either. DHH, rails's author, didn't mind restarting his basecamp servers 400 times a day because of a memory leak. These people are not software engineers. They're cave men using glue other people made to tie together rocks to build stonewalls. Which will then fall as soon as the weather stops being nice. Security, reliability, performance, what do they know about any of these things? But hey, you can do cute things like 3.days.from_now, what a great framework!
