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louthy on May 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub Language Trends

Not sure if it's reasonable to make this call, but it seems the dynamically typed languages have significantly higher percentage of issues overall.

kijin on May 4, 2014 [–]

It could be that dynamic languages have a lower barrier of entry, which encourages many more people to fork the code, find bugs, and make pull requests. It's easy for a PHP guy to find and report bugs in a JavaScript project. It's not so easy for a JavaScript guy to find bugs in a C++ project.

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