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It would be interesting to see someone go through a public repository and compare error rates / bug fixes between dynamic and static languages implementing the same kind of products. Might not point out differences in the approach but at least in the entire ecosystem (tools+developers+code).

At a certain distance you can swap the approaches anyway (but for syntax):

static as dynamic: Use Thing = HashMap<String, Thing> instead of objects. dynamic as static: Put assert(type(x)=="int") everywhere.

As to building large apps. If you need to build a large app (ie you cant divide it into isolated subsystems) then your goose is already well and truly cooked :)



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