[rubber_duck]

I can do like 3-4 hours of productive work a day realistically - after that I lose focus. I can push this in some periods - but that's the ammount of time I limit myself to be functional over long term.

If I need to waste that time sifting trough boilerplate than I'm pretty upset because I get less shit done in that time window.

Chatting on forums is a casual brain teaser and keeping up to date on industry stuff.

[weberc2]

I don't think "expressiveness" or "boilerplate" are the things that slow me down. I use Go, and I find that it is both expressive and a little verbose, but it's still very simple and there's usually one clear way to do things, so I find that I can move a fair bit faster than I can in C# _or_ Haskell (in the latter case, it might just be that Haskell has a huge learning curve and I'm nowhere near over it).

[Quarrelsome]

I would suggest using more personal language when expressing personal opinion and toning down the force (very).

> [I find that] using a language with limited expressiveness (C#) is not very productive for me.

Like, I'd figure you can be mad productive in any language (even COBOL?) although I'm only completely cosy in a couple. There's no need to be so dismissive of the tools that others use.