Static typing has come, there's RBS, which has (finally) coalesced (after adding support for inlining in code) as the blessed type notation, supported by both steep and sorbet. Considering that big companies have adopted it, I'd say that the community agrees and has done something about it. But as you can imagine, many ruby apps have been stuck in legacy for years.
About performance, not sure how you think static typing could solve it, but considering the significant investment recently in JITs, in particular YJIT and ZJIT, again, the big apps seem to agree with you and have done something about it?
Even if you ditch CRuby for the JVM, you can still use JRuby, and still leverage the language while not being pulled down by the runtime.
About performance, not sure how you think static typing could solve it, but considering the significant investment recently in JITs, in particular YJIT and ZJIT, again, the big apps seem to agree with you and have done something about it?
Even if you ditch CRuby for the JVM, you can still use JRuby, and still leverage the language while not being pulled down by the runtime.
It's not like you're without options.