To be honest, and I know I'm clearly backing out of my previous words here, but it's probably more of a dislike than outright hate, because I do use it and I can make do with keeping everything "eloquent" (referring to the "Eloquent Javascript" book) and by using things like use strict;.

But the main thing is probably the way prototypal inheritance works in js. And of course, the weird weird weak typing. I've read about the edge cases so I'm not just being ignorant and not willing to learn, but it's still stupid imo. Overall it's obviously a poorly designed language, but it's just so popular these days... and I keep seeing things that should be implemented in say python/ruby/C etc are written in js (using node/iojs)... So yeah, I'm obviously just jealous about that! :p

I sort of like Haskell too much so I try to use it for whatever I can. Maybe that will change with time though because I'm still only learning it.

For everything else python seems to have everything I need (in term of libraries/frameworks) because I never really need to use C for anything low level.

From the "newer" languages, my voat probably goes to crystal. The advantage it has over rust is syntax while still having comparable speed, but maybe I'm giving too much value to syntax because I like haskell. Rust is still probably better if you absolutely need that concurrency or safety guarantee though. And I also like both rust and go too. :boring:

Things I hate:

• Cabal hell, I wish haskell figured out "package management".
  • There is this stack thing but it's still fairly new (although it is promising).
• Shell languages i.e. bash.
  • To be fair, everyone knows they're not really languages suited for programming but the syntax/system still sucks a lot.
  • This is coming from someone who spends all their time in the terminal and writes shell scripts for a lot of things.
• Javascript.
  • My view of javascript went from indifference to hate. Probably because it's just so popular now when I feel it shouldn't be.
  • Don't get me wrong, I don't hate callbacks/the asynchronous way, it's the language itself that's fucked.