> I'm not going to argue that this is silly or wrong, because we all know the British have had clocks for longer than javascript has, so there is nothing to prove
Lol
How does:
I’m not aware of any empirical evidence that static types have a strong impact on bug density.
lead you to make the assertion:
So in spite of the cool developer tooling they enable, **static types don’t actually help reduce over-all bug density by very much.** [emphasis in the original]
especially when the only real study you quote ends with "we are unable to quantify the specific effects of language type on usage"