Rust and Clojure top the list of programming languages that developers love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stack Overflow published the results of its Developer Survey 2021, which highlighted a number of impressions and economic information, including developers’ attitudes toward specific “dreaded” programming languages and the average payment for certain programming languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The findings come from a global survey of more than 83,000 software developers conducted in May and June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rust topped the list of programming languages that developers love, compared to the options they hate. 86.98% of responses said they love Rust, compared to the 13% of responses that hated it. Clojure ranked second in this regard with 81% of respondents saying they loved the language, compared to 18.88% who hated it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TypeScript ranks third with 72.73% of respondents who said they loved the language, compared to 27.27% who hated it. Elixir, Julia and Python complete the top six.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the other end of the spectrum, Cobol ranked as the least loved programming language. 84.21% of respondents said they hated it, compared to 15.79% who loved it. VBA, Matlab, Objective-C, Groovy and Assembly also joined the list as the six most feared programming languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The report also identifies the programming languages that developers want to have and use in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Python came first with 19.04% of the respondents who wanted to use the programming language, followed by TypeScript (15.29%). JavaScript (14.59%), Go (14.54%), Rust (14.09%) and Node.js (11.9%) round off the list of the six most wanted programming languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rust remains the “most loved” programming language for the sixth year in a row, while Python remains the “most wanted” for the fifth year in a row. Although Python is somewhat outdated compared to Rust, it is easy to learn and applicable in many industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, programming languages are also ranked according to their respective developer salaries in the report. To find out this figure, respondents were asked to state their total compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clojure programmers ranked first with $95,000, nearly $14,000 higher than runner-up F# ($81,037). Elixir and Erlang both received the same pay ($80,077) followed by Perl and Ruby, both receiving the same pay ($80,000). Dart ranked bottom of the list with $32,986.<\/p>\n\n\n