It's always been baffling to me that certain problem domains with extremely slow feedback loops have standardized on using dynamically typed languages. Machine learning and Python. Video game scripting and Lua. A lot of scientific programming as well.

How did that happen? Did the trend start because the work was done by domain specialists who were not necessarily expert programmers, and C was too unergonomic for non-experts to use? Is that the reason a Skyrim modder can't get immediate feedback from a compiler in 2020 - because 25 years ago game devs thought that documenting a C API was harder than embedding a scripting language in the game engine? Or perhaps because evaluating scripts was more secure than loading third-party DLLs and exposing the game's innards to them?

Edit: also, if every CSV file came with a schema, that would be great. Even if it says that every column is of type Option<Any> - at least then I know what to expect.