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On a positive note for a language to be hated on that list it had to be successful and big enough at some point to be useful ;)
There might be a bias in this analysis. The programming languages listed in the no-no list are the one people dislike AND know. I can't say if I dislike a language if I don't know it. This is visible with r language.
I could see myself using VBA more if the "IDE" was not a 20yo piece of crap that pops a MessageBox every time you have an error (I seem to always forget to add the "then" when writing an "if"). Just underline the error but let me continue to code dammit.
There are several languages on this list like that. I wonder if C# for example has that as a factor.
The article defines "like" vs "dislike" in terms of what developers list as preferences on their jobs profile. For example, Perl is the most "disliked" language; what that really means is that developers have actively listed it as a job opportunity they don't want. The analysis shows that there is a correlation between a language's "liked-ness" and its growth as a tag on Stack Overflow. Correlation-is-not-causation a…
So a decline in language is causing people to avoid/dislike it or a dislike of a language is causing the decline in popularity ?
At least that's the case for me. I can say that I dislike PHP because I used it in the past. I couldn't say the same about rust.
The article defines "like" vs "dislike" in terms of what developers list as preferences on their jobs profile. For example, Perl is the most "disliked" language; what that really means is that developers have actively listed it as a job opportunity they don't want. The analysis shows that there is a correlation between a language's "liked-ness" and its growth as a tag on Stack Overflow. Correlation-is-not-causation a…
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I would guess it's the same as Perl, too much magic.
I don't think that is why with Perl. Granted it's been over a decade so opinion might have changed but when I was in college Perl had a reputation as being a "write only" language. Where unless you had comments / documentation to explain it to you, if you encounter code you didn't write (or you wrote 6 months ago) good luck figuring out what it does. All languages are like that to a certain extent but Perl more than…
There might be a bias in this analysis. The programming languages listed in the no-no list are the one people dislike AND know. I can't say if I dislike a language if I don't know it. This is visible with r language.
Yet number of people who dislike Perl much large than number of people who can write code in Perl.
Though I'll concede that with languages like Perl there is probably some degree of hipster-tendencies to actively disliking Perl in that Perl in many circles are seen as a prototypical example of "crufty old language".