Tech Pros Dread This Programming Language the Most
Which programming languages do developers love and hate the most? That’s a much-debated (and much-analyzed) topic, and Stack Overflow’s latest developer survey offers additional fodder for discussion. Stack Overflow’s survey is a comprehensive one, with more than 100,000 developers participating worldwide. And of those tech pros, some 89.9 percent said they “dreaded” using Visual Basic 6, followed by COBOL (84.1 percent), CoffeeScript (82.7 percent), and VB.NET (80.9 percent). “Most dreaded means that a high percentage of developers who are currently using the technology express no interest in continuing to do so,” Stack Overflow explained in a note accompanying the data. And what languages are most-loved? Rust tops that particular list, with 78.9 percent, followed by Kotlin (75.1 percent), Python (68 percent) and TypeScript (67 percent). This is Rust’s third year at the top of Stack Overflow’s list, and the first appearance of Kotlin. Kotlin also came in fourth among languages that developers want to learn, but haven’t used yet; it trailed Python, JavaScript, and Go on that metric. Kotlin is likely boosted by its recent adoption by Google as a “first class” language for Android development.