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Literally provided a link with its popularity.

• woodruffw 5y ago
  Why not a link to which languages programmers like the most[1]? It's our field, after all. [1]: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-...
  • the_only_law 5y ago
    Mildly saddened at the “dreaded” percentage on Erlang.
    • woodruffw 5y ago
      At least you're beating Ruby! I guess programmers don't always have the best tastes, at least according to my Extremely Objective Opinions.
    • cultofmetatron 5y ago
      elixir is much nicer in my experience. anything you want to do in erland, you can do in elixiir + you get a lisp like macro system
  • hvasilev 5y ago
    you are misunderstanding what this data shows.
    • woodruffw 5y ago
      Am I missing something that isn't in the actual leader paragraph? > For the sixth-year, Rust is the most loved language, while Python is the most wanted language for its fifth-year.