> But this tells you next to nothing about which tool is more productive in the hands of a small team of people who know what they're doing. This has been trie

> But this tells you next to nothing about which tool is more productive in the hands of a small team of people who know what they're doing. This has been tried, usually driven by academics who try to start a business by hiring "elite" coders with the belief that you need many fewer elites to do the same work as "normal" coders. Sometimes they have short-term "hits", but it's usually not a sustainable business model. For one, it takes coders with some business sense and team skills, something the academic type tend to lack: they are idealists who get snagged up on arcane design philosophies. Imagine a room of Sheldon Coopers. I'm just the messenger.