Interesting factoid: According to a 2017 study by Capers Jones, Smalltalk is the most productive of all the major programming languages, including C, JavaScript, Lisp, Go, Java, Python, and even Ruby. If you don't know, Capers Jones is the leading expert on software metrics and his study analyzed thousands of software projects and millions of lines of code for nearly 80 programming languages making this the largest dataset of its kind.

Quite something, huh?