On Sunday, 13 January 2019 at 04:04:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
One major takeaway is that the bugs/line are the same
regardless of the language used. This means that languages that
enable more expression in fewer lines of code result in fewer
bugs for the same functionality.
Is the data to support this conclusion freely available on the
web somewhere?
My impression is that Python is considered the easiest language
to use. If it has no more bugs per line than a statically typed
program that seems to suggest that non-speed-critical work should
be done in Python.