[taeric]

Then do said survey? Find empirical evidence and share it.

My experience, sadly, is the louder a dev on the team is about either dynamic or static typing, the more likely that dev's code is something nobody else in the team wants to work with.

[random314]

Here is one sample point for your survey.

Static is better than dynamic for large projects, in my experience.

[taeric]

You should have more than one point of data. How many software systems? How old were they? How many contributors? How many bugs in each? Were any of them green field?

[random314]

Dude, you have already made up your mind, so I am not going to do any homework for you that you yourself aren't performing. You are not my boss, or anyone's boss here

[taeric]

Amusingly, you don't know my actual stance. Which is probably closer to pro static types than to dynamic.

My criticisms in this thread is that the static type brigade does not hinge on evidence. It is typically hollow claims and getting angry at dynamic languages for being obviously bad for lack of helping.

[cageface]

Hard evidence is hard to obtain for something as varied and unrigorous as software.

After 25 years of working on all kinds of codebases I’ll take even badly engineered statically typed code over dynamic any day of the week including Sunday.

[necovek]

I wouldn't.

Badly designed software with terrible class structure (FooModel, FooSchema, FooSpec, FooSchemaSpec, FooSchemaSingle, FooSpecContainer with inexplicable relations between them) is way worse than a well designed non-explicitly-typed software.

[renox]

I don't know, I've worked on a C++ project where most of the Ids/Index 'types' are done with typedef/using int :-(

So in theory the language is statically typed but in practice case a large part of the project is 'integer typed' ..

[random314]

You are not going to find any kind of hard evidence for anything when it comes to software engineering.

If you have some experience in software engineering you should already know that.

Based on the "hard evidence" in this thread you are either ignorant or a time wasting pedant.

[super_flanker]

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