Some of my thoughts: I'm surprised by the dislike of Actionscript (guess it's memories of AS2 mostly). AS3 is quite nice in my opinion, and the display list is

Some of my thoughts: I'm surprised by the dislike of Actionscript (guess it's memories of AS2 mostly). AS3 is quite nice in my opinion, and the display list is a charm to work with, while FlashDevelop is one of the nicer IDEs that I've had experience with. Sure, it runs on Flash and the timeline concept is weird when not making animations, but that should have no bearing on the language itself (and it seems there are efforts towards alternative runtimes anyway, who knows where this may go in the future). I'm surprised by how many people like Go, because, while nice, seems not very relevant and a bit directionless imo. Also surprised by the overwhelming popularity of Python compared to Ruby, which I think is better than Python in every way (except performance, but both are the wrong tool for such a job in my opinion). I don't see why there is a "Lisp" here, as it seems to have both Scheme and Clojure, but (weirdly) not Common Lisp. Rust shouldn't be here either, as it's a WIP. Judging a language that's still in alpha seems... wrong.