Everything you see in the Internet and even your phone alarm are written in programming languages. Programmers make money and get good jobs. Age of technologies is come and the necessity of programming languages is undoubtedly. If you are still in doubt we bring to your attention the most popular languages.
Java
Java is known as “beautiful” language among the programmers that makes it the most used language worldwide. There are couple reasons why. Java is object-oriented language and has strong library of software components which could be reused.One more benefit of Java is Java virtual machine (JVM) that allows written in Java programs run on various computer architectures. One more thing that made Java so popular is that this language became a good example for many tutorial books. But unfortunately it is pretty slow.
C
C is the second most popular language. It is used for computers with different OS and architectures. So C was design to be portable and fast. This is pretty old language and it is still used for writing other programming languages and system programming.
C++
This language was written as updated C language by adding object oriented features (classes and other enhancements) that helps in larger projects. C++ is multi-paradigm, compiled and statically typed. It includes a combination of both low and high-level language features. C++ is very fast, but unfortunately there is one disadvantage: C++ is old and lots of similar new object-oriented languages such as Java or C# are less clumsy.PHP
PHP is originally designed for Web Development aiming to produce dynamic Web pages. It is general-purpose server-side language that uses a run-time interpreter. First C++ wasn’t real programming language, but over time it was improved at the completed fully featured programming language. Since version 5 this language became the most popular among languages for writing web applications.Visual Basic (VB)
Visual Basic was derived from BASIC to be easy to learn and use. VB performs the rapid application development of GUI apps. This interpreted and multi-paradigm language unfortunately was designed only for Windows platform to create applications that don’t need speed and power of other languages like C#.C#
This language is object-oriented and compiled. C# was written by Microsoft as a part of it. Its syntax and nature are very similar to Java. C# has many advantages like speed and power, but really runs only in Windows. C# is essential part of .NET framework so it has a sense to be learned.Python
This is interpreted high-level programming language with indented readable code and large standard library. Python was designed for general programming purpose and utilizes automatic memory management. Python is famous for its readability and overall philosophy.Objective-C
Objective-C is high-level and object-oriented programming language. Objective-C is the main language used by Apple for iOS and OS X operating systems. The popularity of this language is raised since 2009. Objective-C model is based on message passing to object instances.Perl
Perl is pretty dynamic high-level language. It lost the popularity in last 10 years, because many programmers switched it to other improved and newer languages. But it is still used widely as perhaps the best for text processing and system administration language. Many programmers think that Perl has strange syntax and too many ways to do the same things.Ruby
Ruby is your language if you love objects, as it is one of the most object-oriented languages worldwide. On the other hand this advantage makes Ruby slow. Ruby has automatic memory management and dynamic type system. In sum, there are many languages for different tasks and projects. Each has its advantages as well as disadvantages.On the one hand, you can choose the most popular one and you’ll be provided with many leads and tutorials. On the other hand, you can choose rare one that will brings you high rates. Also it should be mentioned that dynamic of Java, C and C++ fell down for the last 10 years while Objective-C, Ruby, C# and other not very popular languages earned respect and increased their positions among programmers.
Andrew SmithAbout the Guest Author:
The author of the article - Andrew Smith. Developer at QArea Company, blogger, journalist. QArea is Software Development Outsourcing Company.