This was a lovely blogpost. I think as software engineers we've lost a lot of the enthusiasm that used to be prevalent amongst the profession 5-10 years back. He mentions it himself you don't necessarily need all of this for a blog. I still enjoyed the tour. It's a nice blog and his content is usually well written and easy to follow.
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Hype: "Static Typing reduces bugs."
Shower: A review of all the available literature (up to 2014),
showing that the solid research is inconclusive, while the
conclusive research had methodological issues.
A literary review I made in 2020 was actually pretty conclusive about it also reducing bugs. I think we might be missing some of the later literature here.