Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

#1

Post by wting » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 12:40 PM UTC

This is a combination of these two polls:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3748961

That resulted in this chart:

    https://i.imgur.com/toGKy21.jpg

Since that poll is ~18 months old, I thought an update is in order.

This poll also adds a few new choices: F#, Go, R, and Rust.

Vote as many choices as you'd like.

Note: By voting for a language you are not up voting this poll. Please up vote this poll to keep it alive.

Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

#2

Post by timdiggerm » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 12:51 PM UTC

I hope it's okay to vote Like and Dislike for javascript

Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

#3

Post by Jare » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 12:55 PM UTC

timdiggerm wrote: post #2

I hope it's okay to vote Like and Dislike for javascript

I had to do that for SQL

Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

#4

Post by DrinkWater » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 12:56 PM UTC

uhh PHP dislikes are going up (what a surprise)

Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

#5

Post by joeblau » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 1:04 PM UTC

What is it about CoffeeScript that people don't like?

Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

#6

Post by simias » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 1:07 PM UTC

And the award of least significant poll of the week goes to...

Seriously, you won't get anything meaningful out of this, people will vote for the language they like and then bash the usual suspects (PHP, actionscript, C++,...). Also they will browse the first 20 entries or so and then get bored and skip to the end.

I'm sure the people who "dislike cobol" (7 people at the moment) have intimate knowledge of the language in production in order to cast such a vote.

It's just a popularity contest and a bad one at that.

Also: "Other - Dislike: 5 points". Enough said.

Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

#7

Post by rfnslyr » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 1:08 PM UTC

I don't discriminate. All languages are equal in my eyes, each with their own quirks and adventures.

Except PHP, PHP can fuck off.

Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

#8

Post by tmikaeld » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 1:08 PM UTC

joeblau wrote: post #5

What is it about CoffeeScript that people don't like?

I think some people still like wasting their time by writing "real" code from the start.

Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

#9

Post by atwebb » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 1:08 PM UTC

timdiggerm wrote: post #2

I hope it's okay to vote Like and Dislike for javascript

Just did the same thing, we're all in this together, though 7-8 yeas ago it would've been a straight dislike. It's power is growing, be wary.

Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

#10

Post by tmikaeld » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 1:09 PM UTC

DrinkWater wrote: post #4

uhh PHP dislikes are going up (what a surprise)

I don't really get why people hate it so much, sure it has it's flaws, but it also has it's strengths.