Top 5 Most Used Programming Languages By Developers

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What is the trending, most used and in demand programming language? This is the question running in the mind of every software developer willing to compete in IT/software world. Software development is still a high demand career path today. According to towardsdatascience.com, there are about 700 programming languages to code in the world of programming which is why coding has become an in demand skill in software industry. 

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Not all programming languages offer you the same job in every software company. Some can be useful for certain specific roles in a particular organization. However, it is always advised to learn multiple languages in order to cope up with industrial standards and role based jobs such as full stack developer role which is an demand job in all software/IT industries.

According to stackoverflow 2020 developer's survey the following are the top 5 programming languages most used by software developers-

1. Javascript:

JavaScript is the most popular programming language since it is high-level and versatile. It has a future scope of replacing any other programming language. It's easily interpretable syntax and good interface makes developer to quickly adopt it to develop applications. However, this language has to compromise client-side security and the developer finds it difficult to debug.

2. HTML/CSS:

HTML and CSS forms the structural system of a UI page of any application. For a full stack developer these are also taken into consideration as one of the most desirable skill set. The user friendly and highly interpretable tags of the languages makes the developer to adopt it quickly.

3. SQL:

Can you still believe that SQL is one of the most used programming languages and not going to be extinct? The reason behind this is all companies are dependent on this programming language to store their data in multiple databases.

4. Python:

Python is another high-level language which is object-oriented, elegant to users with more simple, easily readable syntax. Without any further thoughts, we can say that this will be the future language of programming since it has a wide scope in data science, AI/ML, cloud and application development.

5. Java:

This general purpose, object oriented programming language is widely used in most of the companies to build wide range of applications both web and enterprise. It's platform independence, multi-threading feature, multiple secure frameworks such as spring and hibernate and maintainability makes it still a popular language among developers.

Conclusion:

The programming languages always continue to grow and evolve into new coding languages with offering support to advanced technologies in future. These analysis as mentioned above might help the software developers in various areas of growth in their different programming career choices.

The above mentioned opinions are based on the Stack Overflow Developer's survey 2020