There's been plenty of industry penetration for languages with more advanced type systems. Not sure why there's the arbitrary line being drawn here of dependent type systems.
Some of this is about the penetration of certain ideas. Like, we had to wait for multiple cores on commodity hardware before functional programming started to cross over from the academic community to the professional web programmer.
That shift helps your average programmer to think a bit more mathematically, and then it's basically about whether the programmer starts to appreciate types - and to me that seems to be less about purity of argument than the professional atmosphere the programmer is in. Are you prototyping and moving fast and breaking stuff, or are you caring more about longevity and correctness.
And then once you start getting more into static typing and functional programming, a lot of these other ideas start to become more attractive and intriguing.
It's like a lot of ideas that circulate around for a long time before they really take hold; you're waiting for a certain critical mass of system inputs and momentum, and then things can start to change really fast.
Some of this is about the penetration of certain ideas. Like, we had to wait for multiple cores on commodity hardware before functional programming started to cross over from the academic community to the professional web programmer.
That shift helps your average programmer to think a bit more mathematically, and then it's basically about whether the programmer starts to appreciate types - and to me that seems to be less about purity of argument than the professional atmosphere the programmer is in. Are you prototyping and moving fast and breaking stuff, or are you caring more about longevity and correctness.
And then once you start getting more into static typing and functional programming, a lot of these other ideas start to become more attractive and intriguing.
It's like a lot of ideas that circulate around for a long time before they really take hold; you're waiting for a certain critical mass of system inputs and momentum, and then things can start to change really fast.