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hbrn on Jan 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready

Unfortunately static typing has turned into a religion.

IIRC someone looked at Github issues a while ago to understand the impact of dynamic typing on defect rate. What he found was that around ~1% of bugs in JS/Python/Ruby enterprise systems were type-related.

mpd on Jan 17, 2023 [–]

Did that include bugs due to encountering unexpected nulls?

hbrn on Jan 18, 2023 | [–]

My understanding is that he was looking for instances of TypeError, AttributeError, undefined is not a function and so on. So yeah, nulls should've been included.

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