It’s official, these are the most hated programming languages around
Aging COBOL takes the top spot
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TheQ&A sitefor professional programmersStack Overflowhas released its latest developer survey revealing thatCOBOL(Common Business-Oriented Language) is the most hated programming language by developers.
To better understand whichprogramming languagesare the most loved and the most hated, the firm surveyed over 80,000 developers from 181 countries around the world. Stack Overflow did this by asking them which programming languages they worked with in the past year, which ones they want to work with next year and what languages have they used in the past that they don’t want to work with next year.
COBOL, which is used onmainframe computers, took the top spot for most hated programming language followed by VBA, Matlab, Objective-C and Groovy.
While developers usually don’t have a chance to choose the programming language used by their organizations, businesses should take note of Stack Overflow’s2021 Developer Surveywhen creating job adverts as they may need to offer a bit more to fill positions that require the use of COBOL, Assembly, Perl, C and other less popular programming languages.
Most loved programming languages
Stack Overflow’s developer survey also shed light on the most loved programming languages and for the sixth year in a row,Rusthas taken the top spot as developer’s most “loved language”.
While Rust is the most loved, only 5,044 of the developers surveyed nominated it compared toTypeScriptwhich took the third spot with a total of 18,711 nominations. For those unfamiliar, TypeScript isMicrosoft’s take on JavaScript with a type system that compiles into JavaScript to help boost developers’productivity.
The most loved programming languages also include Clojure, Elixir, Julia, Python, Dart, Swift, Node.js and Go.
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If you’re interested in seeing which databases,cloud computingplatforms, web frameworks, developer tools,online collaboration softwareandoperating systemsdevelopers prefer, than it’s certainly worth taking a look at the rest of the results from Stack Overflow’s 2021 Developer Survey.
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