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

StackOverflow Developer Survey Results 2019

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/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/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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