I’ve been using Ruby and Elixir for over a decade. Pre-AI I used them for aesthetic reasons. The code was beautiful, and I disliked dealing with types.

People without experience in dynamic languages tend to overestimate the number of bugs their type system is saving them from. It’s pretty rare that I run into a bug in production that a type system would have caught.

They also overstate how much types help their AI agents write code. I haven’t seen AI write a type related bug in years at this point.

I work with typescript on the front end, and my experience is totally different there. AI is constantly introducing type errors, but only because the original type wasn’t declared properly. Agents waste a ton of time and tokens appeasing typescript. Ruby and Elixir are very token efficient in comparison.

That said, now that I am not writing code by hand anymore, I am considering switching to something like Go. Mainly so I can run my side projects on smaller machines