So on the front page they have in the center a graph that shows lisp doing better in practical applications. They are basically using one paper to claim performance&#x2F;productivity  improvements.<p>This comes from this paper from 16 years ago: 
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org.sci-hub.io&#x2F;citation.cfm?doid=355137.355142" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org.sci-hub.io&#x2F;citation.cfm?doid=355137.355142</a><p>That paper has all kinds of issues including self-selected participants and a tiny sample size.<p>We should really do a hackathon &quot;study&quot; mandatory for a specific group of people e.g. coworkers, something like a surprise pre-hackathon to a real hackathon or something else. Dev time is so expensive that nobody will ever do a real study it seems.<p>What we have now is people selecting arbitrary technologies to use for their projects. There are so many different ones floating around that it&#x27;s impossible to get proficient at all of them.