[sombremesa]

Postmortems like this are highly suspicious. There are many, many questions such as whether these bugs could've been caught simply via linting, and whether whoever did this research engaged in p-hacking.

I could not find a single paper - the only reference is a slide in a presentation that may well have been pulled out of someone's ass.

Anyway, I do concede that typing has its value, but in a large project, the cons ironically outweigh the pros (for TS specifically). I'm sure other JS typing systems are actually better at that, especially the ones that aren't trying to be JS supersets.

[selfmodruntime]

Given that AirBnB supplies one of THE strictest ESLint / TSLint configs, I'd wager they were using linting alright.