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While the author's anecdotal evidence is coherent, it's not enough to establish causation. Especially if the measure of productivity is feelings of sluggishness.

Rust or not, there's an argument to be made for statically typed languages improving productivity over the long run [0].

All development can feel sluggish depending on the work hours, estimates, business timelines, engineering skills, and the task at hand.

Programming languages are common targets because - we use them so much - there are so many - and all developers, at some point, must choose to dedicate their time to one over the others.

Finally, productivity itself is only one performance characteristic. To focus only on that (without even a good definition of effect or measure) makes content precisely what the author claims to avoid; flame bait.

[0] - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338162224_A_Study_o...