What Programming Language You Should Consider to Learn for 2022 and 2023?

What Programming Language You Should Consider to Learn for 2022 and 2023? (And What You Should NOT) - An attempt to consolidate facts and statistics to understand which programming language stands out and what programming languages are at the sunset. You can also read this in my other blog.

In our opinion A software professional doesn’t need to know more than 3 programming languages. I have even seen some friends gone without learning more than 2 programming languages. While it is easily compelling to learn more that bunch of programming languages, most of the times we end up actively using 3 programming languages.

Market Share

According to the above chart from statista survey, JavaScript and Python seem to have dominance over most of the other programming languages. The omnipresent SQL is always there if we have to talk to a DB though. Also notice that Java is trending only at 4th place.

Which Country

Some of the programming language needs tend to differ from one country to the other. Depending on which country you live in and to which country you offer software professional services to, learning a language becomes easier and necessary. Here is the list from recent statistics

United Kingdom

Uk tops with Python and Java over other programming languages.

India

29% users in India are voting for Python. Java comes second with 22% strong.

United States of America

30% users in USA prefer Python. Java comes second with 15% strong.

Germany

Canada

China

France

Which Domain

Databases

SQL
PL/SQL

Research and Analytics

R
Python

Niche

Salesforce and force.com

apex
javascript

Guidewire

gosu (GScript)
Java

Automation testing

Python
JavaScript
Java

SAP

ABAP

Legacy iSeries

AS400

CONCLUSION

So, this article expresses solely my personal views. You should use your discretion in choosing which language you should consider start learning. I have heard many of my friends and colleagues say that learning second programming language is a lot easier that learning the first one.

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