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Start Your Coding Career In 2022 - Top 8 Programming Languages

1. JavaScript

Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Platform: Cross-platform (Desktop, Mobile, Web)

Benefits:

  • Easy to learn and implement
  • Used everywhere on the web
  • Can run immediately within the client-side browser
  • Reduces the demand on the website server

Uses: Widely used; highly applicable


2. Python

Level: It enables a beginner to become productive quickly

Platform: Web, Desktop

Benefits:

  • Flexible
  • Naturally/Intuitively readable
  • Highly regarded official tutorials and documentation
  • Scripted as opposed to compiled

Uses: Popular in both technical education and business use


3. Go

Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Platform: Cross-platform, mainly desktop

Benefits:

  • Widely considered a “minimalist” language
  • Easy to learn
  • Transparent code
  • Compatible and Fast

Uses:

  • Widely used; highly applicable

4. Java

Level: Intermediate

Platform: Web, Mobile, Desktop

Benefits:

  • Regarded as a good start for learning to think like a programmer and gain coding skills
  • You’ll be able to access/manipulate the most important computer functions.

Uses:

  • Widely used, highly applicable

5. Kotlin

Level: Intermediate to advance

Platform: Web, Mobile, Desktop, Server

Benefits:

  • Less code-heavy than Java and other languages
  • Relatively easy to adopt
  • Fully compatible with Java

Uses:

  • Widely used; highly applicable

6. PHP

Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Platform: Cross-platform (Desktop, Mobile, Web)

Benefits:

  • Open-source
  • Easy to develop
  • Cost effective
  • Flexible with database connectivity

Uses:

  • While it’s used by the vast majority of websites

7. Swift

Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Platform: Mobile (Apple iOS app)

Benefits:

  • Relatively easy to learn
  • Clean syntax
  • Less code and Open Source
  • Faster than comparable programming languages

Uses:

  • Used extensively for creating iOS apps

8. Ruby

Level: Beginner

Platform: Web

Benefits:

  • Flexible
  • The syntax is considered easy to read and write (no specialized “vocabulary” to get started)
  • Enforces good programming style

Uses:

  • Least broadly used

Which programming language are you using currently. Comment the programming language which you want to add to this list.


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