Walter Bright:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1oi8wd/ruby_is_a_dying_language/ccs8yr8
I have found one of the several voices that reminds us of the advantages of dynamic typing:
http://www.srl.inf.ethz.ch/workshop2013/eth-vitek.pdf (I was away for few days.) Bye, bearophile