Earthly is a company that aims to simplify and accelerate software development for developers of all programming languages. The author delves into the results of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020, specifically focusing on the rankings of the most dreaded and most loved programming languages. They emphasize that these rankings reflect the opinions of developers who extensively use the languages, with no influence from popularity bias. The top dreaded languages include VBA, Objective-C, Perl, and Assembly, while the top loved languages consist of Rust, TypeScript, Python, and Kotlin. The author also discusses the challenges of maintaining legacy code and the tendency for developers to prefer working on new projects rather than existing codebases. They suggest that the preference for certain languages may be influenced by the avoidance of maintenance work. The author concludes by highlighting the life cycle of programming languages, indicating that languages that were once loved can become dreaded with time and increased maintenance responsibilities.
https://earthly.dev/blog/brown-green-language/