[positivecomment]

Well, an admittedly silly poll[1] from nearly 4 years ago showed JS to be the 6th most loved, if you subtracted dislikes from likes:

Python 2093, C 1630, Go 766, SQL 706, Haskell 691, JavaScript 683, C# 666

I know it doesn't mean anything but I think it's funny, at least.

Full list: https://pastebin.com/3HevKLzz

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6527104

[cwyers]

HN has two very divergent opinions on JS but the people who hate it really hate it,and the people who like JS may outnumber the ones who hate it but you can reliably expect people to complain about Javascript on every HN thread about it. JS is third in dislikes on there (Java is actually the second-most hated language, who knew?), so I wasn't technically correct but I was in the ballpark.