> Still slower than Java but I think it's well worth it for the productivity gain. I have never seen this play out it practise. The most productive engineers

> Still slower than Java but I think it's well worth it for the productivity gain. I have never seen this play out it practise. The most productive engineers I know can touch type well and know their editor/IDE inside-out, have a solid grasp of the basics and preferring not too many abstraction layers, and a workflow optimised for fast dev cycles. Sure, build your startup with Scala or Haskell - I'll bet on the Ruby / Golang / Lisp competitors.