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Top 10 as per [1]: Rust 87% Elixir 75% Clojure 75% TypeScript 73% Julia 73% Python

Top 10 as per [1]: Rust 87% Elixir 75% Clojure 75% TypeScript 73% Julia 73% Python 67% Delphi 66% Go 65% SQL 64% C# 63% [1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dre... It may be just me, but both the list and the ranking are really weird. Not just apples to oranges, more like apples to toilet paper.

myth_drannon 4y ago
Delphi vs Rust. Delphi is a language everyone is forced to use at work, horrible legacy projects vs Rust and Elixir that basically noone is using at work and all hobby,fun projects. BUT at the same time Lisp and Haskell are also rank very low despite being mostly hobby projects type languages.
- leephillips 4y ago
  Yeah, it makes no sense. Look at APL, about 50/50. Who actually knows APL who doesn’t love it? I suspect the people who “dread” APL just think it’s scary and have never programmed in it seriously.
- pjmlp 4y ago
  Delphi is certainly loved as RAD tool for enterprise desktop applications on Windows, the only real alternatives are .NET and Qt. Rust has nothing to match any of those three in 2022, maybe in a couple of years.
- huhtenberg 4y ago
  Whoever was ranking Delphi was probably doing that based on their past experience from 20 years ago. Delphi evolved from TurboPascal and TP was one of most universally and genuinely adored tools in the late 80s - early 90s. And it was in fact beautifully functional and super fast. Delphi retained most of that even if it acquired some bloat in the process, and it also inherited a lot of goodwill. It sort of dwindled into near non-existence since then, but the whiff of its awesomeness lingers.

myth_drannon 4y ago

Delphi vs Rust. Delphi is a language everyone is forced to use at work, horrible legacy projects vs Rust and Elixir that basically noone is using at work and all hobby,fun projects. BUT at the same time Lisp and Haskell are also rank very low despite being mostly hobby projects type languages.

leephillips 4y ago
Yeah, it makes no sense. Look at APL, about 50/50. Who actually knows APL who doesn’t love it? I suspect the people who “dread” APL just think it’s scary and have never programmed in it seriously.
pjmlp 4y ago
Delphi is certainly loved as RAD tool for enterprise desktop applications on Windows, the only real alternatives are .NET and Qt. Rust has nothing to match any of those three in 2022, maybe in a couple of years.
huhtenberg 4y ago
Whoever was ranking Delphi was probably doing that based on their past experience from 20 years ago. Delphi evolved from TurboPascal and TP was one of most universally and genuinely adored tools in the late 80s - early 90s. And it was in fact beautifully functional and super fast. Delphi retained most of that even if it acquired some bloat in the process, and it also inherited a lot of goodwill. It sort of dwindled into near non-existence since then, but the whiff of its awesomeness lingers.