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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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
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).
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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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