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Highest paying Programming Languages in 2023💸

If you are looking for a lucrative career in the tech industry, you might want to learn one of these highest paying programming languages in 2023. Let's get started!

Go

Go, otherwise known as Golang, was created by Google in 2009. It's an open source language that's used to create simple software. Go has been used by multiple big names, including but not limited to Uber and Dropbox.

Estimated Pay: $168 128

Scala

Scala is a programming language similar to Java. It's a general-purpose programming language that can build almost anything. It's used by Twitter and Coursera.

Estimated Pay: $141 390

CoffeeScript

CoffeeScript is a programming language that compiles into JavaScript, with additional features JavaScript does not yet have, like pattern matching. It's not as popular as it once was, but had a significant impact on JavaScript.

Estimated Pay: $132 067

Objective-C

Objective-C is one of the oldest programming languages out there, however, it's still one of the most high paid programming languages available. It's used by Apple for it's IOS operating system.

Estimated Pay: $127 167

R

R is a programming language that is widely used by Data Scientists and Data Miners. It's founded by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing.

Estimated Pay: $123 988

Python

At the time of writing, Python is the most popular programming language in the world, due to it's low learning curve. Python is a High-Level programming language for General purpose programming.

Estimated Pay: $123 969

JavaScript

Not least of all, we have JavaScript. Javascript is one of the most important programming languages in the world. It's one of the 3 core technologies supporting the World Wide Web. Javascript is used with HTML and CSS to create interactive and user-friendly websites.

Estimated Pay: $115 038

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Paweł Świątkowski

Where do these estimations come from?

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pO0q 🦄

good question.

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acode123

As I just said to Pawel pay estimations are the average salary of an american developer that uses that paticular language. This data can be found on websites like zip recruiter, thanks for asking! :)

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acode123

These pay estimations are the average salary of an american developer that uses that paticular language. This data can be found on websites like zip recruiter, thanks for asking! :)

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Volker B. Duetsch

PHP is still here and why is Rust missing?

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acode123

Sorry, I only wrote a few high paying programming languages, I might've missed a few. I'll look into it.