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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: 2) by fadrian on Sunday November 05 2017, @02:11PM

    by fadrian (3194) on Sunday November 05 2017, @02:11PM (#592510) Homepage

    The main reason for Delphi hate is that much of the code out there in Delphi was written by amateurs. I.e., it sucks. It's not the language itself, which besides from being verbose, was a fairly good implementation of an OO language. I imagine the same issue holds with many of the other "hated" languages. Certainly Perl and PHP fall into this category.

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