Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?

Go/Golang is indeed an amazing language -- my favorite, in fact, even beating out Python for my #1 spot. Go's creators guarantee its type safety; what hole do you speak of?

To hopefully assuage your concerns and to make an assumption about what you may worry is a hole in Go's type safety...

Empty interfaces allow one to contain _any_ value (such as a string) in an interface{}, but in order to use such a value, one must access the underlying type of the interface{} (i.e., the aforementioned string value). To do so, a type assertion is required, thereby preserving type safety... unless I'm missing something?

I was just thinking this same thing. My background is mostly in PHP, C#, and more recently JavaScript.

Each of these languages is completely different from each other, but I haven't gotten to point where I curse the fact that one program is written in one language versus the other.

Each language has it features and pitfalls, but as long as you can accomplish the task you've set out on, I'm not sure that it really matters.

For example, I absolutely love the ease of passing functions around in JavaScript, but you can also make a real stinkin' pile if you don't structure things right.

Having used JavaScript, I find myself thinking about using delegates and anonymous functions a lot more in C# than I did before because I've seen the benefit of them in JS.

You can't tell a good programmer by their choice in language but in how they leverage that language to make awesome software.

this goes to show just how easily a well-written framework can change the whole perspective on a language.

another good example is ruby, i doubt ruby would be this popular if it wasn't for the rails framework.

one language that i do like at a glance but haven't had the experience is python. seems to me like it's the easiest language to learn (especially easy on the eyes, good readability) and it's not a surprise why people like it the most here on HN. but one being gripe about python is that it really is a pain to get the environment setup. i've had a friend who worked a backend-piece for me written in python 2.6 and i had a chance to setup the environment first-hand myself to get it working and i must say it wasn't really a pleasing experience. i'm not sure if he just does "things" differently or not but he told me that i need to setup python in it's own container to not conflict with system python because the one he was using was a different version of python. not only that, the pain i saw really came from him having to load a plethora of modules to just get his app work (like modules just to convert decimals?). when it comes to portability and readiness out of the box to start working, i think python still has some ways to go.

> I've never seriously learned a second language, so I think it's a great language

Do the people you know have experience with other comparable* languages, and still think PHP is a well-designed language and platform?

I concede that the PHP community, and PHP itself, has dramatically improved in the last few years. PHP 5 is a revelation compared to PHP 4.

[*] i.e. not "The other language I know is C, and I love that PHP is so high level!"