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Poll: It's 2021. What are your favorite programming languages?
8 points by crazypython on Feb 20, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 16 comments
What are your favorite programming languages?

Below are the most popular languages. If your favorite isn't below select other and comment what it is below.

Note: By voting for a language you are not up voting this poll. Please up vote this poll to keep it alive.

Python
4 points
C
4 points
Lisp (any except Clojure and Scheme)
3 points
Forth
3 points
Prolog
3 points
C++
2 points
Haskell
2 points
Perl
2 points
Raku
2 points
Scala
2 points
Scheme
2 points
Other
2 points
Erlang
2 points
Smalltalk
2 points
Tcl
2 points
Fortran
2 points
Go
2 points
TypeScript
2 points
F#
2 points
English (GPT-3)
2 points
Microsoft Excel (now Turing-Complete)
2 points
Ruby
1 point
JavaScript
1 point
D
1 point
C#
1 point
PHP
1 point
Java
1 point
Clojure
1 point
CoffeeScript
1 point
Objective-C
1 point
Lua
1 point
Assembly
1 point
SQL
1 point
OCaml
1 point
Visual Basic
1 point
Groovy
1 point
Ada
1 point
Cobol
1 point
R
1 point
Kotlin
1 point
Elixir
1 point
PowerShell
1 point
Bash/Zsh
1 point
Swift
1 point
Julia
1 point
Nim
1 point
Concurnas
1 point
Flow JS
1 point
Abap
1 point
Dart
1 point
APL
1 point
Ceylon
1 point
CSS
1 point
Pony
1 point
Haxe
1 point
ATS
1 point
Mathematica
1 point
Clean
1 point
Crystal
1 point
Crayon
1 point
Solidity
1 point
XSLT
1 point
Hy
1 point
K
1 point
PL/I
1 point
MoonScript
1 point
Oberon
1 point
P#
1 point
Pike
1 point
Cython
1 point
Q#
1 point
Racket
1 point
Ring
1 point
SPARK
1 point
Brython
1 point
Eta Haskell
1 point
Vala
1 point
Wren
1 point
BASIC
1 point
Elm
1 point
PureScript
1 point



Fortran (I use gfortran and the Intel Fortran compiler, now free. Modern Fortran is like a compiled Matlab or Numpy.)


Already on the list. Please consider upvoting the poll :)


actually Numpy and MATLAB try to mimic the high-level behavior and syntax of Fortran.


God bless Java, Javascript, C, HTML, and CSS.


A note: CSS is on here because while it isn't turing-complete, it is a logic language like Prolog, and it has performance considerations, and can do a variety of extremely powerful things: http://csszengarden.com/


Regardless of its turing completeness, it has a syntax and is wildly used, popular, and useful


Since when is CSS a programming language?


Glad to see Perl :)


Tied with "English".-

Larry Wall would approve :)


Please consider upvoting the poll :)


It was me :)


PureScript


Added! PureScript is a purely functional substitute for JavaScript.


Elm


Added! Elm is a strongly typed, functional language and framework for building web apps, advertised as having no runtime exceptions.




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