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This paper titled “Methodological Irregularities in Programming-Language Research” does not mince its words.

Substantial industry and government investments in software are at risk due to changes in the underlying programming languages, despite the fact that such changes have no empirically verified benefits. One way to address this problem is to establish rigorous evidence standards like those in medicine and other sciences.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7999115