Even more than architectures, there seems to be a tiny little bit of spite in everything IT related from programming language design (C++) to end-user facing software (Windows Update).
A mere hour after your comment, a link to the dynamically-typed Gravity language ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17373545 ) appeared on HN. The syntax appears to be based on Apache Groovy's (and its syntactic clones Dart and Swift), and as for the name, well, "Gravity is groovy" ?!