Programming Language Tier List 

These comments have gotten a little... out of hand. Let me clarify a few things: 1. The point here was not to say that some languages have no use cases. It was just meant to be fun and discuss languages I do/don't enjoy using and their overall impact on the industry. Use whatever you want to use or whatever works for your needs - I use many of the languages I ranked lower in this list frequently. 2. I never said I don't understand Python or that it was garbage. I use Python professionally basically every day, and I ranked it fairly highly. I just focused on the negatives as many of the positives are a given. The point is to share my deviations from the standard take. 3. My "problem" with Python and why I didn't rank it higher is that it consistently breaks conventions. It might even make better choices than languages before it, but imo it deviates too much from syntactical norms. This makes it a pain in large dev teams as people who don't work in Python every day have to look at loops with code like enumerate(range(whatever)) and try to convert that to traditional loops in their head. Or they have to look at list comprehension messes that oftentimes prioritize conciseness over readability. The increment operator was just one tiny example of this, but there are many more. Also I personally am just not a huge fan of the whitespace sensitivity over curly braces, but that's mostly personal preference. 4. Yes I am aware TS exists, and when I say JS I am more of referring to both of them. This might heat some frontend devs, but TS is a syntax extension of JS, it's closer to a framework than its own language. 5. Some reasoning behind JavaScript in GOAT: It can easily be used on the frontend and backend, and it has the most developers who know it. This gives it more versatility than arguably any other language, and it helps prevent context switching. It's an incredibly efficient way to work for full-stack developers. There are more jobs using JavaScript than any other language. The open source ecosystem/community is larger than any other. Despite what random comments will tell you, it's generally pretty performant in the modern day. This is less an artifact of the language itself and more the deep level of effort put into implementations of it, but still worth stating. Also, I just enjoy the syntax personally, but at the end of the day that's just a personal preference. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk, carry on with your intended JS flame. Just be kind to each other please 🤝

Python: confusing garbage JS:

Bro is a HTML programmer😂😂

Non-JavaScript developers: This language is trash JavaScript developers: This language is trash

Wtf, Python is confusing, but JS is GOAT? Give me whatever this guy is smoking

Fun fact: the brain of the guy is coded in JavaScript

if Python is confusing then wtf is JS doing up there 😂

Python: confusing Javascript: no errors, your code is fine but i am bored so error at 1:7 lmao.js

*GOAT* _apparently_ stands for: *Goofy Ostrich Acting Tough*

when he said "JS is the GOAT tier" I knew this video was a joke

Got it. Programming === "Frontend Development"

C: Hall of fame JS: GOAT No fucking way

1-based indexing for mostly mathematical-related problems makes far more sense than 0-based indexing because matrices in mathematical equations always start from row and column 1. 0-based indexing would mean a zillion off-by-one errors. This dude's absolutely never used MATLAB

The best language is the one that pays your bills.

"C might not able to compete with the other modern languages" C *created* most of the modern languages.

1-based indexing is the most accurate and mathematical way to functionally program, so R and Julia are the best ways to do data science, no one goes to the library and asks like "Give me the 0 book from the left to right, please" on the shelve, right?

48K likes ... 40K dislikes I think we all know why

JS is so goat that they have created another language to fix its weird behavior

dont worry guys, his brain is just experiencing a runtime error right now

If you use R you USE R, all serious non-industrial stats is done in R and not Python. It’s a niche but essential programming language

Saying matlab is trash is an insult to my years as an engineering student.

I think you are Front end dev

JavaScript GOAT. Tell me you simp webdev without telling me you simp webdev

My favourite moment when JS returns me [object object]

"Python is overrated" ChatGPT is laughing at the corner

Holy shit dude, you put JS above C and Cpp? Whats wrong with you?

bruh forgot to put his favourite html and css on the GOAT tier

Bro was doing November fools XD 😂

Meanwhile scratch: 🗿🗿🗿

Python: confusing garbage JavaScript: 1 + 1 = 2.0000001

*Engineers writing Aritifical Intelligence in python* Meanwhile frontend team :

Bro reignited the battle of Python vs JavaScript

me whos thinking where the hell is c#

As a 10 years+ developer, I can say it out loud, JS is pure garbage

I love how he provides literally 0 reasons for why JS is GOAT

Every language has its purpouse, I don't understand what's the point of ranking them lol.

As someone who's been learning GML, it's a GOAT because I just guessed my third function today

Alternative title : When you're web developer and you HATE DATA SCIENCE so much 🤣

Bro's a wordpress developer☕️

Python being a copy and paste language is the most accurate sentence about coding I’ve ever heard. As a data analyst who uses Python daily, I applaud the analysis

You forgot C#

Pretty sure he did it on purpose. To get the reaction. Now we are all engaging.

"Doesn't have increment operator" just use x +=1💀

NEVER LET THIS BRO COOK AGAIN 💀

People who agree that every programming language is good for the reason they are made

"PHP is the Nickleback of programming languages" **Proceeds to put JS as the goat** 😂 u can tell he's a rookie front-end web developer.

how to trigger an entire community

Trying to code in Matlab feels like I got a lobotomy

How is the most confusing language oftentimes used as the first language for beginner programmers to learn? The vast majority of the time Python is like reading a book, it's that straightforward to comprehend.

CORRECT TIER LIST: Goat: C, C++ Solid: JS, Python

No increment operator, bruh that's such a random thing to nitpick 😂

I cannot believe you'd put JS at the top 😂😂😂

python's for loop is weird but you can't say that overall python's syntax is weird, it's actually really readable

When you've put R to the bottom tier all Data Scientists are started to hate you

Python is too confusing and you put javascript at the goat tier ????

I feel like it’s more depends on what you are using the code for

"python is confusing" meanwhile, JS: 1 + "1" = 11 1 - "1" = 0

Doing my boy MATLAB dirty, only language that can do fast Fourier transform in one line, GOATED

Bro had a irl backend error

Same with python like when it says “indent error: expected 4 spaces but got 3” is so confusing, when I add another space to make 4 spaces it says indent error

Wow i think it's the first of those language tier lists where I don't agree with a single placement. And nothing is more outraging than putting js on S tier and I'm saying it as a js developer.

"I never get error in my code" "Really! How?" "Because I use HTML"

Ngl but each time i try c or c++ without a massive application like visual studios, I can never find a working compiler without my computer throwing errors in my face before I begin

Putting C and C++ in Hall of Fame and JS in the Goat tier (not to mention the Python in solid tier) is like saying I hate wheels but I love bikes.

Me: Mom, can we have tech lead? Mom: We have tech lead at home. Tech lead at home:

I’m so happy I read the comments. Instant relief

1-based indexing in R and MATLAB is useful because it matches traditional math notation, making code easier to read for those with a math background. This can simplify translating math/stats concepts into code and reduce cognitive load on math-heavy tasks.

Worst thing about R is that my school forces the biology students use it to make graphs. I'm a CS student, and that shit confused the fuck out of me.

1-based indexing makes sense for a language that is designed for matrices. 0-based indexing for a matrix would mean that a matrix with a row length of n would cause the final element in that row to have an index of n-1, which is annoying if basically all you're doing is matrix manipulation. I also get the impression that it was designed to be easy to learn for researchers who need to analyze data or do mathematical modeling, but who haven't written code in years.

JavaScript: "yep String + NaN = 🍌" yeah this sounds goated. Python: "we use for each as the default for loop" OMG SO CONFUSING

in python, aren't += and -= incremental operators?

Am I the only person who agrees with everything on here

Tell me you are a web developer without telling me you are a web developer

I’m learning R right now at uni. I really enjoy it with all of the packages you can work with to create data visualizations. It’s awesome how much easier it is to work with data sets in R than a lot of other languages too. But that’s just my opinion.

People stop telling Js is not goat, it’s just his opinion

"super confusing thing", i didnt know that python is confusing when it is just english

Python: Decent JS: gOAt 💀💀

It makes sense for MATLAB to use 1 based indexing since it is based on Matrices and we start counting the the rows and coulmns from 1 and not 0. For example: a_12, denotes the element of the first row and second coulmn of the Matrix A.

Respect for putting Python as Solid while absolutely shitting on it

Python is one of the simplest languages in terms of getting started in programming. It abstracts a lot of the type complexity other languages have. “No increment operator” and “Weird for loops” this is clearly somebody who is basing the language off of syntax rather than developer experience/intended use case. I’m by no means a Python developer, I use the language that best fits the needs of my project. There are languages that I find to be inherently worse due to better alternatives for that use case, but Python is the kind of declarative programming. R is a language built around data analysis and is used by a lot of data/genomic scientists to work with large datasets. Could you do this in any other language? Sure. Use whatever language you find to be practical with your experience and performance/scalability needs. By not tying yourself to a “great” language and building a skillset in a magnitude of languages for different tasks you grow exponentially as a developer. Now all of this isn’t to take away from experimentation. If you want to write an operating system in Javascript, then by all means do so. Taking a naive approach and not testing what other technologies/languages would perform for your project through benchmarking and readability doesn’t allow you to build intuition about what “good” practices are in which tech to pick.

How to trigger every programmer:

1-based indexing makes actually a lot of sense for Matlab considering that it’s specifically designed for usage with matrix and vector operations where it makes way more sense to talk about rows and columns starting from 1

The most bottom means niche but it doesn't mean bad. Most people I met who use them are not programmers like engineers or business analysts. You just can't use it for general purposes.

As someone who used R for quite a while, it's not geared towards developers but for Statisticians and analysts. To make their life simpler, it uses 1 based indexing which for their intent and purposes is just fine.

JS is so great its community has made multiple frameworks to fix its issues and still new ones are coming out regularly

putting JS in GOAT is the most chaotic evil thing I've seen all week

The thing I hate about python is how confusing and difficult to to understand the error messages are

The first 100% accurate langauge tier list I’ve seen in my life Edit: except javascript should be in solid and python in decent

how much you are wrong ? him: YES

java left the chat

He's right.. Django is unnecessarily complicated!

Where's Autohotkey v2 esmoke - 🗿actually 😎

Aint no way dude said python is confusing lmfao

first time heard that python not making any sense

Python is confusing for its environment management (venv / conda / poetry / pip / package manager in distros)

As someone who made the mistake of getting into coding with C++ I agree that it is very good but hard to pick up.

R is super specific in it's usage and just not meant for standard programming tasks. It should even be on that list and for it's pupose it performs alright.

R is top tier. Love that shit

PHP needs more love than Python. C++/C > JS

Ah yes JavaScript... I hate it and i love it at the same time