What languages/environments do you hate and love the most?

[gergy008]

I know we all have a little something that we want to say about a particular language and/or an environment based upon it, and if you're anything like me then you would love to blow some steam off the product and explain why you love or hate it so much.

 

I guess I'll take first dibs.

 

Language/environment I hate the most:

Java

Why I hate it:

Slow, buggy, power-hungry and unresponsive mainly. I hate how it has really half-arsed cross platform support and that there about a billion different libraries and ways to do a specific task.

 

 

Language/environment I love the most:

Objective-C, iPhone SDK and Xcode

Why I love it:

Incredibly easy and intuitive. The language is designed specifically for the products it runs on and I love how the language itself evolves with the generations of products. The language itself is very understandable and while it does have some complicated elements (Especially in conjunction with xcode) the main way the language works is just brilliantly powerful in every way. The Xcode environment has excellent debugging, inline error detection and automatic suggestions and a stunning UI. It's one of the few languages and environments that allow the ideas I have in my head to be quickly translated to code on the screen as I don't plan the applications I make with it.

[flibberdipper]

I like English, and I hate Detroit. Wait, wrong language and environment...

 

So far, I'm just beginning to learn C# (I think, that or Javascript), so I can't really say that much on the matter.

[JamieF]

Don't like Java, especially in Netbeans. Visual Studio has a great ui which is nice.

[tryphaa]

I like english since it's my native language, and I hate the snow.

[addref.release]

My favourite environment is still C# in Visual Studio with ReSharper.

 

Sadly, I do less and less programming in Microsoft land and more and more programming in other environments with far crappier tooling and stacks. I'm looking at you Xcode and Apple.

[Paulandpedro]

I don't have a favorite language, but I enjoy Python since it is simple. I think python is a well designed language but lacks some of the structure and documentation of Java.

 

Funny enough Object C is my least favorite language. Found it really annoying to code in.

[tS_kStin]

Python is probably my favorite right now due to the simplicity of it,a nd HTML is the one that I don;t really like just because of all of the symbols that you must include.

[Alpha17x]

I have a love/hate relationship with Java.  It's really easy to learn but there's always some bug or exploit in it that makes people turn it off.

 

Java is like the gateway drug for coding.

 

I hate Delphi the most. I look at it and I think 'Why are you even here, delphi? Go home.'

[LePawel]

Like:

All I have programmed with so far (C++, C#, Java) and created something that worked.

And VS is an incredible piece of software, until you get one of those LNKxxxx or Cxxxx errors that just refuse to cooperate at least.

Hate:

Anything related in any way to web development, HTML, CSS, JS and their way of "Oh Sh!t a bug! Better not show where it is" development.

[ForsakenLive]

Hate visual studio, love Eclipse

However I like C/C++ but dislike Java

[jezza39]

What I hate: Machine Input Code/Hardware Description Language Why? You have 32 bit instructions (all 1's & 0's), loops are incredibly hard and is a general cluster fuck.

 

What I like: Matlab. Why? The easiest compiler of any programming suite.

[LukeTim]

I hate C++ because it's disgusting to look at and I have to use it every day so I get sick of it easily.

I really like C#. It's cleaner and nicer to use for OOP like Java but maintains the C/C++ things like preprocessor directives and pointers if you need them.

I love Python and from what I have used I also love Ruby... Ruby can be beautiful.

[Amer]

I like Java easy to code.

[MrSuperb]

 

Language/environment I hate the most:

Java

Why I hate it:

Slow, buggy, power-hungry and unresponsive mainly. I hate how it has really half-arsed cross platform support and that there about a billion different libraries and ways to do a specific task.

 

Java is neither slow, nor buggy, nor power-hungry.

 

Poorly programmed java programs are!

[memoryleak]

Some of the answers makes me  . 

 

Language/environment I hate the most:

Well not hate, but OMG that syntax of Objective-C.

 

Language/environment I love the most:

C/C++ - You can do anything, pretty much anywhere.

[LifesCompanion]

Pretty much the same boat as you, I despise Java... Y U NO DECENT

It's just frustrating to code in, I feel like I'm wasting a ton of space and time 

 

Then there's C (and it's lovely offspring) which I am learning now but  :wub: this is how a language should be. 

Sad part is that we most likely won't see Java phased out for a while. 

[RaidenLeeChin]

Language/environment I hate the most:

JavaScript

Why I hate it:

Sooo confusing sometimes...

 

 

Language/environment I love the most:

C

Why I love it:

I have more control over my program and it is blazing fast!

[TheMarius97]

Language I don't like:

Java, maybe due to bad starting experience, but it's easy to learn.

 

Environment I don't like:

I know it's probably bad practice: anything but Sublime-text 3 for Web-development. I just love the auto completion in Sublimetext

 

Language I love:

C and C++ basics are easy to learn and it's high performance

 

Environments I like:

For C++ it's DevC++ for now. Haven't really tried visual studio though.

[toughtrasher]

Java is so buggy and slow... It was one of my first programming languages and I dislike it so much that I never want to code in it again.