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Programming Languages Tier List

General-purpose programming languages by overall utility and adoption.

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The crowd's ranking

S: Rust, Python

A: Go, C++, Kotlin, C#

B: Ruby, Java, Swift

C: JavaScript

D: PHP

F: Perl

chris.l99: Every language is both F and S tier until you actually learn it

TiredSandwich58: Rust has been "most admired" on the Stack Overflow survey for like nine years straight and somehow nobody I know uses it at work

NotFrogOfficial: JavaScript in C is the most ProgrammerHumor thing possible

emily_n59: C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

drunk_goblin: PHP runs half the internet and still gets D

BigFrog9544: Perl is write-only code