This type of question comes up so often, I've
created a list I can use next time it's asked.
Python fanatic betmatt's Questions Comparing Perl to Python
Don't want these to clutter the main list:
Older Nodes (2001-2019)
Recent Nodes (2020-2022)
Quora References
Related Nodes
Teamwork:
From Green Vs Brown Programming Languages (earthly.dev blog)
It's harder to read code than to write it -- Joel Spolsky
... writing something new is cognitively less demanding (and more fun) than the hard work of understanding an existing codebase, at least initially
Scott Adams cartoon:
Developer: The project I inherited has weak code, I need to rewrite it from scratch
Boss: Will there ever be an engineer who says, the last guy did a great job, let's keep all of it?
Developer: I'm hoping the idiot you hire to replace me says that
... if you build new things in Go but have to maintain a sprawling 20-year-old C++ codebase, can you rank them fairly?
I think this is actually what the survey question is measuring.
Dreaded languages are likely to be used in existing brown-field projects.
Loved languages are more often used in new green-field projects.