- Average tenure in a dev job being so short means it is detrimental to optimize for the long term.
- Promotion policies in most companies are heavily balanced towards "shipping more" rather than towards "shipping better". Even in companies without formal policies around this, "more" is way more visible than "better". Even more so if you get to be the hero firefighter who rescues the site from downtime, nevermind that it was your code that set the place on fire in the first place.
- Software as an industry has very low capital requirements, which makes it easy to get into. However, that also means competitors can spring up very quickly and many companies respond by constantly churning out features to stay ahead of the competition.
- It is IMO way easier to teach yourself programming with a dynamic language rather than with a statically typed one. Interpreters are certainly not exclusive to dynamically typed languages, but they are definitely more prevalent. With so many devs being autodidacts, it's not a surprise that many of them default to dynamic languages.
- Average tenure in a dev job being so short means it is detrimental to optimize for the long term.
- Promotion policies in most companies are heavily balanced towards "shipping more" rather than towards "shipping better". Even in companies without formal policies around this, "more" is way more visible than "better". Even more so if you get to be the hero firefighter who rescues the site from downtime, nevermind that it was your code that set the place on fire in the first place.
- Software as an industry has very low capital requirements, which makes it easy to get into. However, that also means competitors can spring up very quickly and many companies respond by constantly churning out features to stay ahead of the competition.
- It is IMO way easier to teach yourself programming with a dynamic language rather than with a statically typed one. Interpreters are certainly not exclusive to dynamically typed languages, but they are definitely more prevalent. With so many devs being autodidacts, it's not a surprise that many of them default to dynamic languages.