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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 isostatic on Sunday November 05 2017, @06:40PM (3 children)
And I still like tcl/Tk, very weird language but if you need a GUI it will get one up and running quick. But nobody bothers to use it enough to realize it is still useful.
I had to write a gui app for a mac quite recently (pretty much a custom frontend to iperf) -- I'd spent 40 minutes on the phone to someone in the iraqi desert trying to get them to run it from the command line and figured "enough's enough". I recalled back when I learnt a little tcl/tk about 15 years ago. Pleased to see it worked, although I did briefly consider perl/tk as perl is my comfort language.
As far as most disliked language, you take the words out of my mouth with significant whitespace. I work with a bunch of muppets who don't think that a bit of bash scripting is something that someone should be able to do, and want everything in ansible, again with the whitespace. The other guys I work with are far better, but have a nasty habbit of writing command line php scripts.
It's hard to be a team player
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @07:26PM (1 child)
> command line php scripts.
That is a thing that exists? Wow.
Although if php is being used, I don't think it qualifies as a "command" line anymore... At best, it's a "suggestion" line.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Monday November 06 2017, @02:18AM
Yes. The same php file can query it's environment and either handle a web request, a cli command, or spawn a GUI. PHP is stupid flexible compared to other languages.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @08:00PM
"had to write a gui app for a mac"
what a skank
"It's hard to be a team player"
especially with ole dirty legs isostatic on the team.