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If popularity is not measured in the sheer amount of code written or programmers, then I would have to say Java. It has to be the most publicly shamed language.
by jophde 12y ago
If popularity is not measured in the sheer amount of code written or programmers, then I would have to say Java. It has to be the most publicly shamed language. It's not really the language itself I enjoy. It's IntelliJ. Seriously, IntelliJ makes writing Java code insanely fast.
- flippant 12y agoOn HN, I'd say that PHP is the most public shamed language. IntelliJ makes Scala a breeze too.
- AnimalMuppet 12y agoI second the love for IntelliJ. It's amazing. It's almost like being telepathic - you think and the code appears on the screen. And even Java... I've also had one problem made a fair amount simpler by Java's reflection, and a fair amount more simpler by Java's garbage collection. But I think Java is much to well-used to count as "unpopular".
- applecore 12y agoThe latest version of Eclipse IDE (Luna) is actually quite good and possibly better than IntelliJ for Java development.
- mahmud 12y agoHave you used Intellij? It's quite possibly the best software development tool ever made. Sometimes I just gawk at how polished it is. Intellij IDEA is simply amazing.
- enkiv2 12y ago> I'm specifically gearing this toward obscure languages -- in other words, not PHP and Java, because although nearly everybody hates those languages, nearly everybody knows them too. Languages with bad reputations that are no longer common count, though (like COBOL and FORTRAN). (From the OP)