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But I guess most programming is mindless IDE-bingo where the least-common-denominator churns megabyte after megabyte of same repeating crap badly solving the same repeating problems, so it doesn't really matter that the syntax is in your face hiding the logic all the time.
> One tag that stands out is the functional language Clojure; almost nobody expresses dislike for it, but it’s still among the most rapidly shrinking (based on question visits, it only started shrinking in the last year or so) That's an interesting observation. Having learned Clojure this year without asking a single StackOverflow question, I don't think this means Clojure is shrinking. I suspect that Clojure's crazy…
Some of the languages with really low negatives are probably only there because they are rarely used commercially so no one is being forced into using them.
JavaScript's standing is pretty amazing considering how widely used it is commercially and that everyone is forced to use it.
So a decline in language is causing people to avoid/dislike it or a dislike of a language is causing the decline in popularity ?
This emotional response probably transfers onto the languages themselves, which means any language in decline will naturally attract resentment.
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.
The list as presented is obviously biased. When I see that fewer people dislike MATLAB than C#... I don't know what to say to that.
Earlier in my career we moved to Ruby over PHP because Ruby was "cool" and PHP was not. Now it is interesting to see them lumped in the same group. Incidentally, PHP has improved greatly because of the rivalry with Ruby because the competition inspired PHP and PHP Frameworks to step up their game in the early 2000s / 2010s. Python's continued popularity surprises me. While I like Python and it is good for data scienc…
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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…
I had a lot of junior folks complaining about "un"readability of my Perl codes back when I used to work in finance. There were a lot of seasoned Java and C++ programmer on the business side who didn't have much problem hacking their way around Perl, but most folks on the operational side had less than a few year of shell, Python, PHP. I ended up rewriting their codes for speed, brevity and correctness -- and it drove them crazy.
But I've also seen a fair share of properly functioning, yet incomprehensible Perl codes so I could see why so many are turned off.
Never met a Delphi expert who didn't love it. Never met a C++ expert who didn't have grave reservations about it. It's like, "Here's your bag of infected needles. You can make really slick games with them, but be careful!"
bash... WTF?
The next step is obviously to take the most-disliked technologies and combine them into something so bad it's good, like "the most unwanted music" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08 ).
2nd chart seems more driven by fashion/geek-cred than intrinsic language qualities. Never met a Delphi expert who didn't love it. Never met a C++ expert who didn't have grave reservations about it. It's like, "Here's your bag of infected needles. You can make really slick games with them, but be careful !" bash... WTF?