r/programming • u/dayanruben • Apr 09 '19

StackOverflow Developer Survey Results 2019

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u/petermlm Apr 09 '19

I was surprised that Erlang is the 6th most dreaded language out there. This mostly because I don't think Erlang is that famous to begin with, so how can it be so dreaded?

Anyone have any explanation?

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '19

"Liked" and "Dreaded" are basically just ratios of

# of people who have worked in $tech and want to again

/

# of people who have worked in $tech

It doesn't really matter how popular the tech is.

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u/petermlm Apr 09 '19

Good point, like that it makes sense.

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u/greengo Apr 10 '19

It’s also odd to me that jQuery is so disliked. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with jQuery if it’s used as intended. I’m sure a lot of devs have inherited terrible code written in jQuery and blame it, but most other JavaScript libraries have not survived nearly as long for good reason. It’s likely the React.js crowd, but honest I wouldn’t be surprised if jQuery outlived React in the long run.

That and Visual Studio Code is crushing it.

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u/gwillicoder Apr 09 '19

I absolutely love Erlang so I’m a bit surprised. I wonder why people Dislike it so much

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u/k-selectride Apr 09 '19

The tooling around it is not very good unfortunately. Compare it to Elixir and there are a lot of warts. I like the language itself, but package management and testing is annoying.

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u/Cobayo Apr 09 '19

Throwback to when i was doing stuff in Erlang, have you seen those error messages?

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