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Unfortunately static typing has turned into a religion. IIRC someone looked at Github issues a while ago to understand the impact of dynamic typing on defect r

by hbrn 4y ago

Unfortunately static typing has turned into a religion. IIRC someone looked at Github issues a while ago to understand the impact of dynamic typing on defect rate. What he found was that around ~1% of bugs in JS/Python/Ruby enterprise systems were type-related.

mpd 4y ago
Did that include bugs due to encountering unexpected nulls?
- hbrn 4y ago
  My understanding is that he was looking for instances of TypeError, AttributeError, undefined is not a function and so on. So yeah, nulls should've been included.