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by magice 3187 days ago
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2635922

Just ONE study, so don't take too much heed. That said, apparently:

* Strongly type, statically compiled, functional, and managed memory is least buggy

* perl is REVERSELY correlated with bugs. Interestingly, Python is positively correlated with bug. There goes the theory about how Python code looks like running pseudo-code... Snake (python's, to be more precise) oil?

* Interestingly, unmanaged memory languages (C/C++) has high association with bugs across the board, rather than just memory bugs.

* Erlang and Go are more prone to concurrency bugs than Javascript ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Lesson: if you ain't gonna do something well, just ban it.

All in all, interesting paper.