In my experience python and Ruby and their ilk aren't actually that much better for programmer productivity anymore. They do have great libraries, but static la

In my experience python and Ruby and their ilk aren't actually that much better for programmer productivity anymore. They do have great libraries, but static languages have easily closed the productivity gap and have huge advantages in other areas, mainly that bugs are much easier to track down in properly typed languages and you gain productivity just from that. When I was a cowboy solo coder I'd never use anything but things like python, but having worked in teams, they have limitations.