Added:

  like+dislike
  like/dislike
  (like/dislike)*log(like)
  (like/(like+dislike))*log(like)
  (likeDirichlet/(likeDirichlet+dislikeDirichlet))
  (likeDirichlet/(likeDirichlet+dislikeDirichlet))*log(likeDirichlet)
  lower bound of confidence interval at 95% level

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source: https://github.com/bshanks/lang-rank

The resulting lists are quite similar but not identical, so i've analyzed them to find sets of languages that always or almost always appear at the top. I also made the corresponding 'most disliked' lists to find the most disliked languages.

On every 'most liked' list out of the above with some sort of control for wellknown-ness[1], the two most liked languages are C and Python. On every corresponding 'most disliked' list, the most disliked five languages are coldfusion, cobol, visual basic, actionscript, php.

Looking at various lists, the next most after C and Python liked usually tend to be lisp, scheme, lua, haskell. Then clojure, rust, erlang, go. Then sql. Then assembly, C#. Then ocaml, F#.

And after {coldfusion, cobol, visual basic, actionscript, php}, the next most disliked usually tend to be groovy or java.

In other words, the partial ordering seems to be approximately[2]:

  {c, python} >
  {lisp, scheme, lua, haskell} >~ {clojure} >~ {rust, erlang, go} >~ {sql} >~ {assembly, C#} >~ {ocaml, F#}
    > ... >~
  {groovy, java} > 
  {coldfusion, cobol, visual basic, actionscript, php}

It's interesting to contrast this 'most liked (controlling for wellknown)' ordering with the most (like+dislike)d counts, whose top 9 items are javascript, python, java, php, c, ruby, c++, sql, c#:

* Python is both extremely liked and extremely well-known

* Javascript is extremely well-known and is both liked and disliked.

* Java is extremely well-known and very disliked, and PHP is extremely well-known and extremely disliked.

* C is very well-known and extremely liked.

* Ruby and C++ are very well-known and both liked and disliked. SQL and C# are very well-known and more liked than disliked. Haskell and Go are moderately well-known and very liked.

* Lisp, Scheme, and Lua are not well-known but are very liked, and, to a lesser extent, Clojure, Rust, and Erlang.

[1] by which i mean, the six lists (like/dislike), ( (likeDirichlet/(likeDirichlet+dislikeDirichlet)), lower bound of confidence interval at 95% level ), (like/dislike)log(like) ), ( (like/(like+dislike))log(like) ), and ( (likeDirichlet/(likeDirichlet+dislikeDirichlet))*log(likeDirichlet).

[2] where >~ means a relation that holds for many of the lists under consideration, and > means a relation that holds for all of them.

Nice. It would be cool to add a third column ordered by the ratio of likes/dislikes.

Thanks! Definitely helped me figure out which languages people voted on overall, as well.

Love the language or hate the language, there seem to be some languages that are much more on people's minds.