Comment by _greim_

    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.

Static typing lets you do more complicated things by offloading a subset of complexity-management to robots. The remaining human-managed complexity expands until new development slows to a crawl, and no further human-managed complexity can be admitted to the system, similar to adding more lanes on a freeway.