Use cases are different, so I don't see any way to have a general "this is best" winner.

Dynamically typed languages, for example, might always be popular with users that are highly technical, but not necessarily from a comp-sci background. Say you're a Unix admin, and have to automate a bunch of work. A strongly static typed language is going to be verbose and feel heavy to you. And you don't really care about performance, since the scripts can run in 1 second or 1 minute, and either gets the job done.

On the other side of that, if you're a developer on a largish project, a dynamically typed language might feel loose to you, complicate your unit tests, or drive hard to diagnose bugs. Or perhaps the performance trade-off isn't workable.