Top programming languages
For quite some time I was wondering which programming languages were the most hated on the web, so I did this simple test: I googled "hate [language name]" and here are the results:
| 501 | ruby |
| 733 | c++ |
| 1260 | python |
| 9350 | javascript |
| 12100 | php |
| 13200 | perl |
| 21900 | java |
| 50900 | c |
You are free to deduce whatever you want from those results (I won't say I was not surprised to see C, java and perl in the top 3…)
I then asked myself what was the ratio of existing projects in a language and the number h of results to the previous query. For each language, p is the number of projects using that language on SourceForge.
Let C the repulsion coeffiction of the language, C = h / p. The results are somehow interesting:
| 0.076 | c++ |
| 0.362 | python |
| 0.942 | ruby |
| 1.150 | php |
| 1.533 | java |
| 4.067 | perl |
| 5.276 | c |
| 6.216 | javascript |
Surprise ! C, Java and Perl are still in the top 4, but JS is now first. Another surprise is C++, I thought it would be worse than that…