I would use this language for mobile applications

Based on responses from 2180 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I would use this language for mobile applications" describes different items

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Top items

  1. Objective C
  2. Java
  3. Scala
  4. Javascript
  5. C#
  6. C
  7. C++
  8. Python
  9. Lua
  10. Clojure

Bottom items

  1. Cobol
  2. APL
  3. Matlab
  4. R
  5. Prolog
  6. Shell
  7. ELisp
  8. AWK
  9. Fortran
  10. Mathematica

What's going on here?

We've taken all your individual votes and done our best to assemble them into an overall ordering of items. It wasn't easy! There are all sorts of internal contradictions in majority voting.

For items where we've got a lot of responses the numbers should be pretty good. For the rest you can probably just expect them to hang around the middle of the rankings wondering what they're doing here.

Most similar to

  1. I can imagine this will be a popular language in twenty years time
  2. I would list this language on my resume
  3. I can imagine using this language in my day job
  4. The resources for learning this language are of high quality
  5. I usually use this language on solo projects

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  2. This language has an annoying syntax
  3. I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language
  4. I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language
  5. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"

All items

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