cognitive psychology. PhD 
Copying @hillelogram's idea for avoiding doomscrolling.
AMA about:
programming languages
being a CS PhD student
being a CS professor
starting a company
JeanDate
producing #zoombachelorette and @zoombachelor
other topics not on list
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Very little good evidence here. How people write programs is influenced by domain, task, education, language, tooling, available libraries, documentation, StackOverflow, so on.
Software eng researchers have tried to empirically study this problem, eg correlation of language use to bugginess on GitHub (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2635868.2635922 …). But insightful study design is hard. @emeryberger et al pointed out a lot of serious flaws. (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3340571 …)pic.twitter.com/MLwlABP3go
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IMO the most insight will probably come from controlled experiments. I like this paper from
@AndreasStefik & co on productivity value of static typing (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-013-9289-1 …) because it recognizes many relevant threats to validity (eg familiarity, learning effects). -
But there's many second-order effects that will be hard or impossible to control, e.g. community interactions arising from language design. Best we can do is learn from economists / sociologists / climatologists / etc on how to study complex systems.
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