Yeah, one of the interesting results in empirical studies of defect rates is that defect rate is influenced by lines of code more than other factors like “stati

Yeah, one of the interesting results in empirical studies of defect rates is that defect rate is influenced by lines of code more than other factors like “static types”. Similarly, analyses of defects have discovered that they tend to occur at the end of repetitive sequences of code, because the developer has sort of switched into autopilot mode. I think the obvious conclusion here (and my experience bears this out to some extent) is that languages and libraries that force boilerplate on you produce buggier code than languages and libraries that abstract the boilerplate away.