No, I meant that bringing this fact as an argument is weird: I'm not arguing that there's a productivity drop, I'm saying that it's only temporary. Furthermore

No, I meant that bringing this fact as an argument is weird: I'm not arguing that there's a productivity drop, I'm saying that it's only temporary. Furthermore, I have a few years of RAD development experience, and I know as well as you do that not everything may be coded with a couple of mouse clicks. As soon as you hit the business logic, you need to use the keyboard, you need to devise algorithms, you need to evaluate their complexities, and you need to code them down. That being said, even just getting used to a new language gives you new insights about coding practices.