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I think this misunderstands the goals of bug prediction, which are typically along the lines of

- directing engineering resources to where they're likely to be most leveraged from a quality standpoint [what Google focused on]

- estimating how many resources to devote to bug fixing and/or long it will take an in-progress code base to stabilize [the goal of a lot of the work Micorosft did with Windows in the early 2000s]

- and estimating post-release defects to estimate (and perhaps direct) customer support and maintenance resources [more typical in the hardware world than software]

And I wouldn't say that static type systems have an ambition of rendering bug-prediction impossible. If you can truly detect all errors at compile time, then prediction's trivial: no bugs remain!



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