Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years

Based on responses from 1918 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years" describes different items

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Top items

  1. PHP
  2. Assembler
  3. C++
  4. Visual Basic
  5. Java
  6. Perl
  7. C
  8. Javascript
  9. APL
  10. Cobol

Bottom items

  1. Haskell
  2. F#
  3. Clojure
  4. Python
  5. Go
  6. Lua
  7. Scheme
  8. Scala
  9. Smalltalk
  10. Common Lisp

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Most similar to

  1. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  2. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  3. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  4. This language has an annoying syntax
  5. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer

Most dissimilar from

  1. I use this language out of choice
  2. I would like to write more of this language than I currently do
  3. I find code written in this language very elegant
  4. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  5. I enjoy using this language

All items

  1. PHP
  2. Assembler
  3. C++
  4. Visual Basic
  5. Java
  6. Perl
  7. C
  8. Javascript
  9. APL
  10. Cobol
  11. Fortran
  12. Mozart-Oz
  13. Shell
  14. Ada
  15. Pascal
  16. Haxe
  17. Delphi
  18. C#
  19. Prolog
  20. REBOL
  21. Matlab
  22. O'Caml
  23. TCL
  24. Objective C
  25. J
  26. Mathematica
  27. AWK
  28. Forth
  29. Groovy
  30. ELisp
  31. Coq
  32. Eiffel
  33. D
  34. Standard ML
  35. Factor
  36. Io
  37. R
  38. Ruby
  39. Erlang
  40. Common Lisp
  41. Smalltalk
  42. Scala
  43. Scheme
  44. Lua
  45. Go
  46. Python
  47. Clojure
  48. F#
  49. Haskell