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Both JavaScript and Java ranked #1 among developers’ favorite and least favorite programming languages in a JetBrains survey. State of the Developer Ecosystem 2022 report. The just-released report is based on a survey of over 29,000 developers.
The most popular languages in the report were Kotlin, C#, Python, Rust, and Java compared to the number of programmers using them. Looking at the total number mentioned by participants, their favorite languages were Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, and Kotlin.
The five languages most frequently mentioned as least liked were JavaScript, Java, PHP, C, and C++. When calculating its unpopularity relative to the number of people using it, the “absolute champion” (disliked by 96% of users!) is Perl, followed by Visual Basic, Delphi, C, and PHP. I was.
The most commonly used programming language is JavaScript, used by 65% of respondents in the last 12 months. We found TypeScript, Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript, to be the fastest growing.
34% of respondents use TypeScript, up from 12% in 2017. His 92% of TypeScript users also used JavaScript. In fact, 75% of the coding community was involved in web development.
