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Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) by exabrial on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:21AM (#29825526)
Whats the productivity coefficient for Java? Or Javascript? Or Python? or Ruby? Or Assembly? or C?

I only ask because I've never gotten a straight answer with an actual number.

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Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) by kaba0 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:39PM (#29826736)
Because there is no way to define such a number. We only “know” as per Brook’s famous paper, No silver bullets that this number has not passed a cumulative value of 10 in like 3 decades now, since the first programming languages. The only way to increase productivity is through code reuse - and given the flourishing JVM ecosystem, Java has that as a big plus.
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