When it comes to which languages developers like and dislike, Stack Overflow has some insight. Based on the languages developers tagged as those they would not like to work with in their Stack Overflow Jobs profiles, the company has found that Perl, Delphi, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and PHP are the most disliked programming languages, while R, Kotlin, TypeScript, and Rust are the least disliked.
The least-disliked programming languages, based on at least 2,000 mentions:
- R
- Kotlin
- TypeScript
- Rust
- Bash
- Clojure
- Swift
- Python
- JavaScript
- Go
The most-disliked programming languages:
- Perl
- Delphi
- Visual Basic for Applications
- PHP
- Objective-C
- CoffeeScript
- Ruby
- C#
- Java
- C++
The numbers were based on the 20 most-disliked tags among those mentioned at least 200 times. “It’s worth emphasizing again that this is no indictment of the technologies, their quality, or their popularity,” Robinson said. “It is simply a measurement of what technologies stir up strong negative feelings in at least a subset of developers who feel comfortable sharing this publicly.”
Source (Paul Krill, “Stack Overflow reveals the most-disliked programming languages”, InfoWorld, 01.11.2017)
