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    Have you cross checked with other sources?
    – mouviciel
    CommentedDec 17, 2013 at 10:16
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    I'm the author of the Play Framework talk mentioned in the question. I was going to write a reply, but Eric Lippert's answer below says it better than I could have, so I upvoted it instead and recommend everyone reads it.
    – Yevgeniy Brikman
    CommentedFeb 9, 2014 at 21:00
  • There is alot of bias here as static languages have so much boiler plate that they invariably end up large. I have first hand experience of this: stackoverflow.com/questions/5232654/java-to-clojure-rewrite
    – yazz.com
    CommentedNov 26, 2014 at 9:30
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    @Zubair Static does not mean boiler plate code. Have you checked out Scala? You experimented with Clojure; thats why your view is biased.
    – Jus12
    CommentedNov 26, 2014 at 11:43
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    Does this comparison account for the fact that a large codebase tends to be become larger when written in a statically typed language. In other words, comparing a 1 million line codebase in Java vs Ruby is a biased comparison, since the Ruby probably does a lot more. The correct comparison would perhaps be a 1 million line Ruby codebase vs a 5 million line Java codebase. Is the Java codebase still more maintainable? I suppose not.
    – Kartick Vaddadi
    CommentedApr 23, 2016 at 11:12

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