Comment by throwaway894345

I agree that empirical data in programming is difficult, but i’ve used many of those languages personally, so I can say for myself at least that I’m far more productive in Go than any of those other languages.

> As an aside, I’d even go so far as to say that the main problem with C++ is not that it has so many features in number, but that its features interact with each other in unpredictable ways. Said another way, it’s not the number of nodes in the graph, but the number of edges and the manner of those edges.

I think those problems are related. The more features you have, the more difficult it becomes to avoid strange, surprising interactions. It’s like a pharmacist working with a patient who is taking a whole cocktail of prescriptions; it becomes a combinatorial problem to avoid harmful reactions.