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You might like these: An Empirical study on the impact of static typing on software maintainability, Stefan Hanenberg, Sebastian Kleinschmager, Romain Robbes, Éric Tanter, Andreas Stefik/. Empir Software Eng, (2013-12-11). DOI: 10.1007/s10664-013-9289-1. An Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Type Systems and Code Completion on API Usability using TypeScript and JavaScript in MS Visual Studio. Lars Fischer, Stefan Hanenberg, Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on Dynamic Languages (154--167), 2015. A large-scale study of programming languages and code quality in GitHub. Ray et al., 2014 The TL;DR is: typing matter, but so does tooling. However, programmers in dynamic languages are slightly slower, appear to produce more defects. There is a measurable benefit of static typing, but it's small. |