Looking For Coding Jobs? These 8 Programming Languages Are In Highest Demand Right Now (2019 Data)

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This is the age of the internet, where everywhere is available on the web that is spun around the whole wide world. A website is the basic way of marketing of any business today, and for these and many more purposes, web developing is looked at as an emerging career.

Youngsters are choosing to take up web development and work in that career either through organizations or as freelancers as well. Not only is it an exciting career, but it brings great monetary returns as well.

We have brought to you eight programming languages that are in demand the most and learning them will make you rich too!

Python

One of the most popular programming languages in the world, Python has proven to be a great platform for a novice. For beginners, Python is easy to read and understand and has a user-friendly interface. It has found its uses in mobile applications, desktop applications, machine learning, network servers, media tool applications and more. A survey was conducted by Analytics India Magazine in 2018, in which 48% of the respondents said that Python is the most important language to be learnt by a data scientist. In 2019, this percentage escalated to 75.

Top python users are internet giants such as YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Google, Yahoo etc.

Ruby

This is a popular language too, especially for start-ups and beginners because of its user-friendly interface and is easy to pick up. It is extensively used in web development applications. It uses Ruby on Rails as it is the basis of a web application framework.

Twitter, Airbnb, Bloomberg, Shopify are some major websites that employ Ruby on their platform.

Java

Java was designed by James Gosling from Sun Microsystems in 1991, and it is since widely used for the development of Enterprise-scale web applications, Android app development and Big data. It has strong open-source rapid development tools and a large number of open-source libraries. It is inspired by a very famous philosophy- “Write once and run everywhere” which means it is compatible with any device once its code is compiled.

Spring, Struts and Hibernate are some of the popular mediums which make use of Java.

JavaScript

JavaScript is considered to be the leading programming language in terms of popularity as confirmed by Stack Overflow 2018 on their website. Its running speed and easy to understand syntax makes it stand out amongst other programming languages. It is widely used in client-based browser applications due to its higher running speed and can run smoothly. It plays a significant role in front-end development along with HTML and CSS. JavaScript has a very handy and flexible syntax and is used in all major browsers. It can also be used on server-side via Node.js for the development of web page content.

Some well-known websites that use JavaScript are Youtube, Facebook, Wikipedia, Amazon, Google.

C#

Developed by Microsoft in 2001, C# is widely used for backend programming, building games and mobile applications that are based on Windows, Android and iOS. Those who know C very well can easily pick up C# as both the languages have similar syntax. It lets its users develop major applications on Dot NET Framework.

Major firms like Accenture, Infosys, Netflix, and Capital choose to work with C#.

C++

It was designed in the 70s by Bjarne Stroustrup, a Danish Computer scientist. It is a highly flexible, stable and reliable language. Users who want to be a system level programmer should definitely have this language in your resume. Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome are two major projects that were created by using C++. C and C# have a very similar syntax to C++, which makes the user who knows C++ well easy to learn these languages.

It is mostly used in game developments, Advanced Computations and Graphic Compilers.

Swift

It is mostly used in the development of iOS applications. It is highly compatible and runs almost everything from the programming language to the Objective-C. It is said to give the safest performance and software design patterns. It has this unique feature to highlight the mistakes it has caught for the developer before sending the software for final production.

It is used in a large number of mobile apps like Mozilla Firefox, WordPress, and SoundCloud in iOS-based devices. If you see yourself working for Apple in your future, you should definitely learn Swift!

PHP

A brainchild of Rasmus Lerdorf, a Danish-Canadian programmer in 1994, PHP is an open source functional and object-oriented programming language. It is mainly used in Web applications, Content Management Systems and eCommerce Applications. It can also be embedded into HTML code through server-side execution.

Freelancers, this is THE programming language for you!

WordPress, Wikipedia and Yahoo are a few major websites that implement PHP as a web language.