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On Stack Overflow Jobs, you can create your own Developer Story to showcase your achievements and advance your career. One option you have when creating a Developer Story is to add tags you would like to work with or would not like to work with:
[...] The most disliked languages, by a fairly large margin, are Perl, Delphi, and VBA. They're followed by PHP, Objective-C, Coffeescript, and Ruby. On our team we're certainly happy to see that R is the least disliked programming language, relative to the number of people who liked it.
[...] Generally there is a relationship between a tag's growth and how often it's disliked. Almost everything disliked by more than 3% of stories mentioning it is shrinking in Stack Overflow traffic (except for the quite polarizing VBA, which is steady or slightly growing). And the least-disliked tags— R, Rust, Typescript and Kotlin— are all among the fast-growing tags (Typescript and Kotlin growing so quickly they had to be truncated in the plot).
Hate away, guys, you just make my skills and willingness to write perl more valuable.
Source: What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages?
(Score: 2) by Lester on Sunday November 05 2017, @08:41AM (6 children)
The most used, of course. There are not many Oberon 2 [wikipedia.org] haters
Moreover, how many languages do you use in your job? Probably you hate the language you didn't choose
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @09:04AM (3 children)
5 on a weekly basis (c++, c#, java, php, javascript). May become 6 soon (lua)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @10:07AM (2 children)
I only remember Lua exists because I read it in a VLC [videolan.org] changelog or two.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @01:21PM (1 child)
A bunch of games use Lua for scripting, so it comes up often for modders. I recently learned a bit of Lua to debug some Factorio mods.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @03:18PM
OpenWrt uses LUA for the web-ui backend and Vis (the text editor) uses it for highlighters and to store configurations (instead of an ini \ json file). I believe one of the BSD kernels uses it as well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @11:36AM
mainly due to the fact that not a lot of people know it exists...however, mention Wirth's involvement and the usual anti-Pascal mob will rear their ugly heads and decry its existence despite having never heard of it before, let alone actually used it...
(Now that you've reminded me of it, for nostalgia reasons I think I'll see if I can get System Oberon up and running on one of the old HP thin clients I've got cluttering up the junk box)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by anotherblackhat on Sunday November 05 2017, @03:45PM
Yeah.
I'd like to see the percentage of users of a language that hate it.