This reminds me of a study where they compared the time taken to solve a problem comparable to a two-star AoC problem in difficulty across different dev environ

This reminds me of a study where they compared the time taken to solve a problem comparable to a two-star AoC problem in difficulty across different dev environments, such as languages and IDEs. There are a lot of anecdotes about how "it's the programmer, not the language" or "any language can be productive", etc... The actual results were that many popular languages are more than an order of magnitude slower to achieve time-to-correct-solution than others. From memory, the fastest was F# with about 20 minutes, then Python and C# with about 40 minutes for both, and then C/C++/Java were hours to even days!