You seem to be quite close-minded, every piece of evidence is not good enough. Are you only going be satisfied by a 20-year long peer-reviewed independent study?

How about this: Python is only ~1.5 times more popular than Java, and Ruby is way below Java, and yet if you look top successful YC startups, Python has 17% of valuation, Ruby has 52% and Java is merely 1%. You can, of course, choose to interpret it in a multitude of ways, but at least one of them is that if you pick Java for your startup, you are unlikely to be successful (or, alternatively, people who are unlikely to build a successful startup are more likely to choose Java).

https://charliereese.ca/y-combinator-top-50-software-startup...