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I'm not sure. I'm tempted to say I'm about as productive (in orders of magnitude) in any language that I'm very familiar with and has a large enough "batteries included" component (yes, crates would count, as does npm). Even C++ as long as the extras from boost are there.

I can type reasonably correct code much faster than I can reason about how the program should work.

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I'm not saying unproductive. I'm saying, we need to be realistic. Compared to, say, Python, it's nowhere close.

Compared to C++, Java, or even Go, it's anywhere from competitive to significantly better.

You may be using a different definition of productive. I wouldn't consider python or any dynamic language productive on a large project.

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