programming languages

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This language has a good community

Based on responses from 2448 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language has a good community" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Clojure
  2. Haskell
  3. Python
  4. Ruby
  5. Scala
  6. Erlang
  7. Perl
  8. Java
  9. ELisp
  10. Scheme

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. Cobol
  3. Pascal
  4. Visual Basic
  5. Delphi
  6. AWK
  7. Forth
  8. Shell
  9. Mozart-Oz
  10. Ada

Most similar to

  1. I usually use this language on solo projects
  2. I use this language out of choice
  3. I can imagine this will be a popular language in twenty years time
  4. I can imagine using this language in my day job
  5. I would use this language for a web project

Most dissimilar from

  1. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  2. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  3. This is a low level language
  4. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  5. I often get angry when writing code in this language

All items

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