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There are studies that show it is true: https://games.greggman.com/game/dynamic-typing-static-typing/ https://games.greggman.com/game/dynamic-typing-static-typi

• synthc 4y ago
  Based on one guy who did a hobby research project based on GitHub issues?
  • ReflectedImage 4y ago
    Have you ever of this little company called Youtube? Youtube did the dynamic typing thing in Python with 20 developers and Google did the static typing thing with several hundred developers in C++ for their Google Videos. Who do you think won? https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eulODwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA136&dq=google+video+vs+youtube+python+story&pg=PA136&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=google%20video%20vs%20youtube%20python%20story&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eulODwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA136&d...
    • synthc 4y ago
      Nice anecdote, but was it because of the language or because a small motivated team gets much more done than a big enterprise that is bogged down in meetings?
      • hbrn 4y ago
        You seem to be quite close-minded, every piece of evidence is not good enough. Are you only going be satisfied by a 20-year long peer-reviewed independent study? How about this: Python is only ~1.5 times more popular than Java, and Ruby is way below Java, and yet if you look top successful YC startups, Python has 17% of valuation, Ruby has 52% and Java is merely 1%. You can, of course, choose to interpret it in a multitude of ways, but at least one of them is that if you pick Java for your startup, you are unlikely to be successful (or, alternatively, people who are unlikely to build a successful startup are more likely to choose Java). https://charliereese.ca/y-combinator-top-50-software-startups/ https://charliereese.ca/y-combinator-top-50-software-startup...