It’s all about skills set and career choices, that is why there are numerous sources of “best language” statistics, so, here are some of them:
Stack Overflow Developer Survey made a survey with more than 56,000 developers from 173 countries.
Here are the most-used technologies:
The survey also revealed what developers love most:
And if you’re curious about what developers most dreaded, here are some of them:
1. Visual Basic – 79.5%
2. WordPress – 74.3%
3. Matlab – 72.8%
4. Sharepoint – 72.1%
5. CoffeeScript – 72.1%
6. LAMP – 68.7% (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
7. Cordova – 66.9%
8. Salesforce – 65.4%
9. Perl – 61.3%
10. SQL – 60.3%
Here’s a top of what technologies are more interesting to learning for developers:
And here’s Stack Overflow Top Tech:
The PYPL Popularity of Programming Languages Index uses data from Google Trends to determine how often language tutorials are searched online:
- Java – 23.1%
- Python – 14.4%
- PHP – 9.7%
- C# – 8.4%
- JavaScript – 7.7%
- C – 7.1%
- C++ – 7.0%
- Objective-C – 4.4%
- R – 3.4%
- Swift – 3.0%
So, what’s the Best Programming Language for you?
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