Not sure about dwarfed.  I&#x27;m at least 50x more productive at prototyping Python than in C.<p>I don&#x27;t understand what passion has to do with the language&#x2F;library choice.<p>Assuming there are some people who are primarily motivated by the language they use or syntax of that language, what about people who don&#x27;t care about the language and are more interested in algorithms and data structures?   What about people who are motivated by the final product?<p>Also, lack of such studies leads to people not trying new &quot;stacks&quot; because they are afraid that it&#x27;s a new unproven technology that probably won&#x27;t work.