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posted by mrpg on Sunday November 05 2017, @06:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the in-my-days-it-was-cobol dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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?


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @02:01PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @02:01PM (#592507)
    For some cases Perl is actually better than Java for that:
    1) It's built in on many/most Unix systems.
    2) You can pack it into a single executable to run on Windows without having to install it.

    As a result I can use a single perl agent for all OSes.

    It's true many things are done differently on Windows compared to Linux (and Linux vs AIX) but in practice you'll find similar problems for Java too[1]. For both you need to "write kinda-once, debug everywhere".

    And if you talk about GUI stuff, using Java just means it looks and works about as bad on all platforms. In the end far more apps use javascript on the browser as their base instead of java on the OS.

    [1] There's kind of a write-once run anywhere for java on Android. But you still need an emulator for desktops ("but of course" you say, but QED I say).
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @10:26PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @10:26PM (#592684)

    2) You can pack it into a single executable to run on Windows without having to install it.

    That is true of Java. Hence jmorris's complain about shipping the JRE together with your code.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @04:32PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @04:32PM (#593152)

      1) Does it really run without having to be installed?

      2) Even if it does it's not quite the same when the JRE is like 60+MB and has to be bundled for everyone. With perl it's normally only the Windows users who'd get the exe stuff. The unix bunch mostly already have perl preinstalled.