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Swift Tops List of Most-Loved Languages and Tech
Nerval's Lobster writes Perhaps developers are increasingly overjoyed at the prospect of building iOS apps with a language other than Objective-C, which Apple has positioned Swift to replace; whatever the reason, Swift topped Stack Overflow's recent survey of the "Most Loved" languages and technologies (cited by 77.6 percent of the 26,086 respondents), followed by C++11 (75.6 percent), Rust (73.8 percent), Go (72.5 percent), and Clojure (71 percent). The "Most Dreaded" languages and technologies included Salesforce (73.2 percent), Visual Basic (72 percent), WordPress (68.2 percent), MATLAB (65.6 percent), and SharePoint (62.8 percent). Those results were mirrored somewhat in recent list from RedMonk, a tech-industry analyst firm, which ranked Swift 22nd in popularity among programming languages (based on data drawn from GitHub and Stack Overflow) but climbing noticeably quickly.
Matlab? Dreaded? Why?
I don't like it. But its good for its purpose, I find.
Rust is neither very good, nor finished. It promotes the myth that secure software is a question of the tool used. (It is not. It is 100% a question of coder, designer and architect skill and experience.) It just has a rabid follower community with little actual understanding of what they are cheering for and how it actually compares. That alone already makes it a problem, not a solution.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
They said "languages or technologies" in the summary. Sharepoint, WordPress and SalesForce are platforms that apparently people who responded to the survey don't want to work with.