Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

Regarding the language itself, what's there to dislike about C#?

In my very uninformed, and novice opinion, which you should entirely disregard, it is my probably incorrect estimation that the Rust developers are in maybe over their heads. I don't like saying negative things about an interesting idea, good engineers who mean well, so I don't like this so please someone convince me why I'm wrong.

A few things:

The multiple ways to manage memory seem completely messy to me, the various ways to box values and what not and what the implications are. It's not pretty, it's not elegant, but then sometimes things aren't. I'm complaining about prettiness over usefulness somewhere else in this thread. But the box memory model thing left me feeling like it was a convoluted solution that could end up in confusion.

No SSL stuff. Not much encryption stuff. And worse of all in their mozilla IRC channel those guys said writing such things should be left to experts, that people should always use the C libraries with rust. Being able to make HTTPS requests would be a pretty important feature for a browser like Servo I'd think. It's true security features should be vetted, and cryptography requires expertise, but on the other hand look at Go. They wrote a lot of their own cryptography code in go, and it seems to work pretty damn well.

The pace of development. Given the state of the network io library, the many packages required to get to a useful state, it seems like it's going to be about a decade or so before Rust is even usable. Which is fine, it's not a race. But overall I just get the feeling that I'm not sure Rust is what it aspires to be.

Anyway. I hope Rust does do well. I like the idea, I like the people working on it. Maybe I shouldn't have committed to forming any kind of opinion still so early in its development.

Last week i had to create an Android App generator that takes a json manifest and generate Java Models,ContentProviders,activities,resources,unit tests for each Sqlite table in my app = 4/5 hours of work in PHP. days of work saved each time i need to bootstrap an app.

This week I needed a command line script that optimizes image files for different form factors = 30 minutes of work in PHP

I needed the first script to be available to my peers so they can generate basic android crud apps through a web app = 1 hours of work/deployement on an apache server and no need to ask the sys admin for another server.

My point is you can hate PHP all you want it is a great tool that has its place in enterprise envirronement.

Not in my experience though. The people who do like PHP are the ones who started with it and didn't use it too much yet. In my exp. a lot of ruby/python/node.js devs are former PHP developers who built several websites using PHP and switched because they got pissed about PHP (or stuff that is related to PHP).

More interestingly imho is the percentage of people who hate PHP but still use it most of their time, since they can't find projects with other languages. I bet that's a lot of people...

many, most - weasel words