I have a feeling that to a large degree, what the data seems to show is not an objective measure of how good a language is, but rather "languages I was forced t

I have a feeling that to a large degree, what the data seems to show is not an objective measure of how good a language is, but rather "languages I was forced to work with, when it wasn't my preferred language". The 3 most "hated" languages, Perl, Delphi and VBA, all fall into this category. The number of people actively moving towards them is probably far fewer than the number of people who are forced to pick up and maintain an ancient artifact in them, hence skewing the stats. In most cases, you can spot the pattern of old language being further to the right than the default, newer equivalent. What would be really interesting is watching this graph evolve over time. As an example, I suspect that initially, CoffeeScript was nowhere near as hated as this, and the hate is coming from falling out of vogue and having its maintenance shoved on developers.