> user studies of programming languages I feel like a lot of what I see is people want to establish that language X is much better than language Y, and I think

> user studies of programming languages I feel like a lot of what I see is people want to establish that language X is much better than language Y, and I think that kind of study almost doesn't make sense with all of the relevant but poorly defined and difficult to control variables. A study around ergonomics of a few options in otherwise the same language is comparatively trivial.