The previous thread had been closed when the SiteRaw servers merged in March, but the results of the poll were pretty satisfactory with over 3,000 participation on the question: "most hated programing language ever".

The results?

I won't lie, there is no real surprise here:

Let's recall that the results of the aforementioned survey showed that JavaScript ranked first among the most hated programming languages with 52% of the votes out of a total of 3,673 respondents. VBA came in second with 27% of the votes, followed respectively by Python (24%), PHP (13%), Java (11%), Assembly (10%), and so on. I'm not counting W as a language lol. As with previous surveys on the SiteRaw forums, the big (non-)surprise was to note that JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP, and VBA are consistently ranked among the top 5 most hated programming languages.

So let's discuss the current "worst" coding languages up until the date of the next poll is announced by the admins :)

Python because I never managed to get used to its annoying syntax and the performances are really something that should make you think twice about it. You could easily make the same arguments about any other script language (Go, PHP, etc ...)

And Javascript, of course, because once you've tasted Typescript it's hard to look the same way at JS

Python is the ghe language par excellence. Once you've touched it you'll never go straight.

I recently had the misfortune of doing some JS (ReactJS in front) and Java (for the backend) for some routine maintenance at my company office. Over 200 applications total. Both totally deserve the hate they get, but JS is particularly odious in more than one regard. Generally, I don't like non typed languages. When you look at all the dependencies necessary for the most mundane tasks, it's hard to imagine someone voluntarily building a large scale project using this language.

So the most used languages are also the most hated? Are devs masochists lol?

@Locust: The choice of a language isn't always up to the dev. But the people who answered the poll are mostly developers. It's that simple.

As for web dev specifically, Javascript sort of became the unofficial client-side assembly: it's the only language (with HTML and CSS) that can be executed on all browsers. So nowadays you see many languages that "compile" - we say "translate" to sound smart - into Javascript.

When it comes to the web, you have to use JavaScript but that doesn't mean we like it. Why do you think TypeScript was invented in the first place? TypeScript is well-designed, made by a genius - Anders Hejlsberg, the same guy who created Delphi and then C#. Meanwhile, JavaScript started out as amateurish hackwork.

Just as a reminder: JavaScript was created in ten days in May 1995. It's basically a student project. Or a joke, depending on how you look at it.

PHP is kind of the same deal. Given how many solutions are built with PHP - like WordPress - and the fact that every hosting provider supports it, it's hard to avoid. But that doesn't mean anyone actually thinks PHP is amazing. At best, it's tolerable if you're using a (good) framework.

On the other hand, there are tons of Ruby on Rails fanboys here in Australia, but it's still a niche (same analysis as above).

That's why this kind of survey is funny - you can clearly see that the most widely used languages aren't necessarily the best-designed ones.

Strangely Javascript never bothered me as much as it should. Perhaps I was desensitized to its flaws early on, then again, I never used TypeScript so I have little frame of reference.

But the scripting languages - Python, PHP, Ruby, Lua -, and their atrocious syntax, they truly deserve a @Phoenix rant.

Also didn't know Visual Basic was still used today. The VBs too make the list for horrible syntax, mediocre performance and the occasional strange code behavior.

I knew this:

I never used TypeScript so I have little frame of reference

From the moment I read this:

Javascript never bothered me

^^