[apk-d]

When it comes to picking criteria to compare languages with, performance and succinctness have the advantage of definitely having a large impact on developer productivity/happiness (same thing tbh) while being (relatively) easily measurable.

Having recently jumped ship to a language/runtime that gives up to several orders of magnitude of performance speedup while maintaining similar verbosity, I appreciate the many opportunities this opens. I can write "lazy" code that pretty much always runs (way) faster than the stuff I used to carefully optimize. Perhaps the last metric I'd be interested in is the a number of bugs in the average codebase, and while I've seen language comparisons for that, I'm not sure whether to believe that they're accurate.