Here Are The Ten Best Programming Languages to learn in 2022
Disclaimer: The information provided in this article is my own personal opinion and research. You may share your opinion in the comment section at the end of this article.
I still remember that day back in 2013 when I decided to learn programming and that was one of the best decision I took in my life. But before start learning, I asked myself.
What Programming language should I learn first?
As we advance to 2022, it’s a good time to reflect on our top learning priorities for 2022. Before start talking about Programming Languages let me clarify:
- I’m not arguing that any language is objectively better than any other.
- I agree that developers should eventually learn more than one language.
Let’s dive right in with the first Programming Language:
1. Python
Python has been a growing programming language and it shows no signs of disappearing. You’ll find it in web applications, desktop apps, network servers, machine learning, media tools and more.
You might find Python useful for back-end services and API’s, if you’re in security or Site Reliability Engineering. Python-based web development framework like Django, Pyramid and Turbo Gear have found more and more popularity.
In the end, it’s a good choice for beginner developers to learn Python, as it’s high-level and easy to read and comprehend language. Python stats according to PYPL site. There’s a great aricle on courses for ethical hackers for programming language. Go and check it out.
Here’re some best python books I picked from Amazon to start learning Python.
2. JAVASCRIPT
JavaScript is the most popular language according to Stack OverFlow. More than half of all developers use JavaScript. It’s vital to front-end development and increasingly relevant to back-end development. And it’s rapidly expanding into areas like game development and the (IOT) Internet of things. JavaScript stats according to Stack OverFlow survey for 2018 & 2019.
JavaScript allows you to build interactive websites, and it’s truly an essential web tool technology alongside HTML and CSS, and because most browsers in some way implement JavaScript. It’s crucial for getting into web-development and learning this language but it’s generally easier to pick and do something tangible with, in part because of all accessible UI.
3. Rust
If you haven’t heard Rust before, it’s a new system-level programming language that is changing the way we think about programming. Rust came in first place in the 2018 & 2019 Stack OverFlow Developer survey for developer most loved and wanted language.
Rust language originally developed by Mozilla Foundation and it operates as a low-level language, suited for performance critical code. Rust is created with the purpose of avoiding the dangling pointers, buffer overflows or any other kind of memory errors.
For a beginner, Rust might be a bit of a struggle to pick up as it insists on various rules to achieve memory safety. However, experienced developers love it, and it’s quite possible that in the next few years Rust will be in very high demand.
4. Go
Go is a minimal language like Python. Since it is developed by Google, who are also Python lovers, they came up with a language which is simple to write like Python but more efficient like C++. Go provides better features to write concurrent programs. In the era when multi-core apps are being written, Go addresses the need quite well and also there’s built-in support of concurrency in it.
Combining the best aspects of functional and object-oriented programming, as well as featuring a valuable set of inbuilt development tools. Some good and famous projects are using it, for instance, kubernetes and Ethereum Cryptozoic Project are based on Go.
5. Swift
If you want to get into IOS mobile development, you should definitely consider Swift as a high-paid career path. Swift is a relatively new programming language released in 2014. It’s Apple’s new language options for programming native IOS and Mac-OS applications. Native apps have been found to outperform hybrid apps, and Sprite-Kit makes it even easier to build 2D games. It is considered an improvement in terms of usability and performance compared to Objective-C.
Swift is a statically typed language means that XCode checks your error for you, so your errors are easier to track down, and further, it operates faster. By the way, XCode is the editor for the Swift language.
6. Kotlin
Kotlin is the second most loved and wanted a programming language in 2018 Stack OverFlow survey. Kotlin language is originally developed by JetBrains. It is fully inter-operable with Java and comes with no limitations. It can be used almost everywhere Java is used today: for server-side development, Android Apps, and much more.
Android developer has also been using Kotlin language from some time and loved the most. In 2017 Google announced that, Kotlin is now the official language for Android development. Kotlin works great with all existing Java libraries and frameworks and runs with same level of performance as with Java.
7. C/C++
C/C++ is a highly efficient and flexible language, first created back in 1985. It has remained in high demand due to high performance, reliability, and variety of contexts you can use it in. Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome are the two of the most well-known projects created with C/C++, and indeed most of Amazon’s website are written in C++.
A career with C/C++ involves developing desktop applications, especially performance-intensive tasks. You’ll find C/C++ in a wide range of applications– from GUI application to 3D graphics for a game to real-time mathematical solutions.
8. C#
If we talk about C# individually, I could ignore it from the top 10 programming languages list, but when I think that C# is the most commonly used language with the most versatile Framework .Net Core. Definitely C# makes its position. So, are you a Web Developer or want to Develop an app for Desktop or Mobile, If you are a Game Developer or want to work on Machine Learning, C# knowledge will help you everywhere.
Surprisingly, C# is the 2nd best programming language according to CodingInfinite’s Top Programming Languages survey.
When we talk about .Net Core, It is the most loved framework in Stack Overflow’s Survey 2019.
9. Java
Java is arguably the most popular programming language you’ve ever heard. It is a language created by mighty James Gosling from Sun MicroSystems in 1991. There’s a great saying ”write once run everywhere” capture one of the keys that make Java so valuable. It’s powerful JVM (Java Virtual Machine) which makes it cross-platform compatible.
There are so many Gurus and Pandits saying that the Java will be forgotten after the Kotlin language introduced. Java has died and resurrected more times than we can count and it is still right here. According to the latest 2018 Stack OverFlow survey Java is still on number fifth in Programming & Markup Languages section.
10. F#
F# is originally developed by F# Software Foundation. There was a time nothing much happening in Web regarding of F# but according to the 2018 & 2019 Stack Overflow survey, F# ranks in highest salary comparative to other programming languages. F# is most often used as a crossed-platform Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) language, but it can also generate JavaScript and GPU code. The following shows the F# salary comparison:
That concludes the list of top ten programming languages you should consider learning in 2019. If you like what you read, share your knowledge with the community.
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No dart? Id say with flutter hitting release a few months ago, its much more relevant these days then plenty of your bottom choices. Not to mention the announcement of hummingbird and desktop embedding. Its truly poised to become the next java; write once deploy anywhere and in native bytecode mind you. What about clojure or elixir; both are poised to break out in the next few years in various ways. Clojure has 2.0 coming and elixir is well elixir. (Plus learning any lisp helps you become a better programmer even if you don’t use it for work). Then of course, Scala is kind of a big deal these days; dotty is getting closer and closer to release and the language is very battle tested in enterprise environments.
I love F# but most people only add a small amount to existing c# code bases rather than writing entire apps with it. Frankly, there seems to be very few reasons to use dotnet these days unless you’re working on universal windows apps or games with c#.
Typescript shouldn’t even be on here since it’s just a retreading of JavaScript with types and a poor implementation at that. Kotlin is an OK choice but with flutter, I’ve found myself using it less and less. The novelty of a less verbose and more safe java wore off fairly quickly. Aside from android development, kotlin doesn’t have much that makes it a better choice then Scala, clojure or any other JVM language (aside from java). Why not consider reasonML/bucklescript or elm? So many frameworks are taking cues from elm, its definitely worth learning if you want to learn reactive programming.
Hey Tensor, thank you for your reply.
1. Yeah, I love Flutter also I’ve wrote a couple of article on it but Flutter is kind of new and there are many things that we need to do natively.
However, you’re absolutely right Flutter will be a good career choice for a furture.
2. The reason I put Typescript in list is becuase it is gaining a lot of popularity in last few years. You can see the popularity graph in Stack OverFlow chart.
3. Yes, you’re right Elixir is also getting popluar for programming. I’ll update the article and see where it stands on metrics I’ve use.
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I believe Julia could have easily been included in this list. It has the ease of use of Python, statistical/AI/machine language capability comparable to R, and runtime speeds 200x better than Python’s, almost rivaling C++. And it was created by MIT.
I’m learning it now and believe it has a good chance of becoming a mainstream language.
Hi Michael Milligan, thank you for your reply.
I know Julia has been quite a buzz for some time, but it’s still pretty new and the stable version for Julia is launched in August 2018. I think it’s still a bit too early to put it along the up-mentioned languages.
Groovy: for Gradle/Jenkins scripting
Racket, the successor of Lisp/Scheme
Hi John F, thanks for your reply.
As I mention this article assumes what people look for when choosing a language with trendiness and pleasant to work with. As you can see Racket was not even on the list of PYPL or Stack OverFlow graph.