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Boilerplate Tax – Ranking popular programming languages by density

nnx Saturday, February 07, 2026
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The article ranks popular programming languages by their 'boilerplate tax' - the amount of repetitive code required to perform basic tasks. It analyzes the code density of various languages and provides a ranking to help developers understand the verbosity of different programming paradigms.
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