Eh, I just find the whole "debate" silly. The two systems aren't comparable and can and do live together side-by-side in every program. I feel I agree saying that empirical evidence here is going to either be silly or impossible to achieve for a long time.

So, I guess I just tire of it. If you're making a language today you can either take advantage of information known statically or not. I think there's a relative burst in activity here as some of the more genuinely useful forms of static analysis have become recently more popularized and I personally feel it's silly to not use this information... but it's just a choice, not a religious war.