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Top 8 Programming Languages to Learn in 2021

Rithik Samanthula on April 08, 2021

Our world is full of technology! But what is technology built on? Code! Code is written in Many different languages like HTML, JS, CSS, C++ etc. ...
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Bastien Chevallier

Where are 6,7,8 ?

Else this Top is a nonsense... I can more or less agree for Python Top 1 but JS after all o_O Or is it a back-end languages personal Top ?

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Rithik Samanthula

I didn't write it in a way that The first one is the best or the last one is the worst. I just gave it as general languages to learn.

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Kyril

I love javascript and python hehe. I am learning that 2 programming languages

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Rithik Samanthula

Thank You🎉🎉

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Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Thanks for the article.
A small remark. Java is not owned by Oracle. Oracle owns the trademark on everything that starts with Java (yes even JavaScript) and the logo's. Oracle is the steward of Java but the specification and OpenJDK are not owned by Oracle afaik.

There are many implementations and vendors of OpenJDK builds that have nothing to do with Oracle.

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Rithik Samanthula

Thank You🎉🎉

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Another JSKid

That's 8... Not 10...

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Vivek Mittal

9 actually

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Jose M. Segura Polanco

Cool, I think elixir is also a good language that is growing and although it is not very well known it is quite robust, friendly and has a good future.

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leob • Edited

Top 10 ? And why is Swift there, but not Kotlin or Flutter? For the rest this seems a more or less accurate list of the currently most popular programming languages, can't argue with most of them being "mainstream" indeed.

If you truly want to make it 10 (rather than 8) then you could add Ruby, and give C and C++ their own separate entries, you'd have 10 languages then :-)

Oh and by the way, I'm glad that you didn't name your blog post "10 best languages to learn" ... "most popular" doesn't equal "best" ;-)

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max

1 2 3 4 4 5 9 10 ?

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Rithik Samanthula

Yep, done working on it. Thanks for pointing it out

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Rithik Samanthula

Holy Cow! I forgot about that! Thanks for pointing it out. I will definitely work on it.

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max

Haha no problem, great list though ;)

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Rithik Samanthula

The Order of The Languages do not matter at all. Thanks for reading!

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mirfan17

Nice Article but PHP created in 1994, not in 1990 Please correct it.

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Rithik Samanthula

Alright, thanks for the feedback