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Trends: Loved vs Not-so-loved

Introduction

This article is about developers' favorite languages versus the most used languages.

Languages πŸ’¬

Loved ❀

Apparently, 80% of Rust developers want to use it again in the coming year. However, only 12% of developers use it professionally.

65% of professional developers use JavaScript, and 57% of people who used it last year want to use it again this year. Only 0.33% of developers care to try Raku (formerly Perl 6), but 65% of users want to work with it again. It's also used by only 0.14% of professional developers.

Not-so-loved 🫀

Unsurprisingly, very few people want to try COBOL, and only 20% want to work with it again. The least loved language was MATLAB, with only 18% of developers wanting to use it again.

Trends πŸ“‰

It seems, by looking at the charts, that many more people who use a specific language want to use it again, compared with very low amounts of people wanting to try them.

For example, 4% of developers would like to try Elixir, but 73% of people who actually use it like it enough to use it again.

It is a very similar trend with databases. Less than 1% of developers want to try Datonic, but it's the second most loved database (70%), after only PostgreSQL.

What languages and tools do you like and why?

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