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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 vux984 on Sunday November 05 2017, @11:08PM
"Then you have the same problem, having to carefully go though the code line-by-line trying to figure out where the curly-brace goes. "
Sure. But it happens a LOT more often with semantic whitespace. I have to accidentally actually delete a visible curlybrace in other languages. Its also easier to quickly fix a curly brace issue with source control and diffing tools, (or even ctrl-z since you deleted something visible so you might even notice that you did it right away; especially if the syntax highlighting immediately flags that there is an unmatched pair...)
Python seems to be fairly decent language otherwise, but I simply can't see semantic white space as anything but a really bad idea.