The empirical evidence is as you say. It just hasn't been my experience that code bases with the same number of tracked defects are all the same. Some are bri

The empirical evidence is as you say. It just hasn't been my experience that code bases with the same number of tracked defects are all the same. Some are brittle and littered with rare lurking bugs (rare in the test environment, but guaranteed to be hit by many in production) and other code bases are much more stable. I think this depends on the style, the rigor of design and the discipline seen throughout development. So even if my experience with static typed code bases has been more pleasant, dome of that could be due to the type of developer that uses them.