A key distinction between SaaS and non-SaaS is the housing of multiple-tenants in a single instance. This required mass-customization techniques. Most of the customization, or variability, has to be defined at runtime; (re)deploying of the instance should be kept to a minimum! As an effect, the software system engineer has to design the application with support for runtime variability. For more advanced customization scenarios such as business logic and workflows, you will need a (turing-complete) programming language to support this. Statically typed languages are in a serious disadvantage compared to dynamic (scripting) languages as the former requires compilation, building and linking which is not near as easy a simple interpreting engine.
My guess is that statically typed languages will continue to be used for the instance itself, the core application. Building on top of that, all user customizations, or user applications, will mostly be developed using dynamic languages such as javascript or python as they are much easier to work with at runtime compared to the current generation of statically typed languages such as Java and C#.
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