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PLEASE DO THIS ANNUALLY!!! or maybe even quarterly? this is by far the BEST one ive seen rather then just what some list THINKS

5. C++ 4. C# 3. Java 2. Python 1. JavaScript

Learning SQL can be very important too. It doesn't take long to get a handle on, and a lot of jobs will require you to be proficient in SQL especially if it's database driven. SQL alone will not be enough to get a job though.

AFter spending 2 years studying front-end and a little bit of Python, I would say that starting with Python or JS is not for everyone. Dynamically typed languages are a trap, and I learned how to be a programmer much better after switching to C#. Not only did it help me learn how to program better with it being a statically typed language, but it helped me really boost my React by learning Typescript.

I'm a data science major and first I learned python numpys and pandas, then programming with python, then data structures and algorithms with Java, then data visualization with javascript, and come back to Python for machine learning. I think starting with Python is great because it's beginner friendly, then switch to Java for data structures and algorithms

New vid, yay! As someone who felt stuck in my previous career and really found myself through becoming a KZfaqr and a Data Scientist/programmer, thank you for your great content. Can't wait for your future content!

As a frontend dev who's primary focus is (JS), who also dables in backend when needed (java), this is very comforting to see these statistics. I also had no clue upwork had even close to this many jobs for JS. I may start to fiddle around in there on the side. Great video

Still enjoy working in PHP mostly in a laravel space. It's a language that's really started to seriously clean up from it's blunder years and it's a joy to just quickly get stuff prototyped. Doesn't pay quite as high as the other disciplines, but the work still pays pretty damn well and it's more in my comfort zone, honestly.

VERY helpful. Ty!

Dang! I’m surprised about Swift. Are you able to compare this data to pay rates? It’d be interesting to see which one pays the most once someone is established.

Thanks for explaining your ranking process, I found this very insightful.

I've been struggling with JS, but I keep pushing myself. Your video really solidified my language choice. Thank you for the comprehensive overview on your metrics for ranking in-demand languages.

great, thanks !

This video is pretty practical and gives me a lot of aspects to think about. Thank you for the great video!

Would love to know your thoughts on React, where it's going and how we can learn it to get a Front End job!

this is a way better method of ranking.. nice

Very Good explanation, Thank you Sir!

Great work! 👌👍

Best comparison video, thanks.

I'm not even looking for a job, yet I'm still watching this video fully, I really do love cold hard data

Amazing video! Thank you for creating

This advice is perfect!! we need more like THIS PLEASE!!! 😁

I feel learning and having a solid understanding of both Rust and C++ will become quite beneficial in the near future. Already starting to see positions pop up from companies that require an understanding for both. This will become more prevalent as more companies start to move their infrastructure over to rust in the coming years.

It's clear that learning Java, Python and JavaScript will allow one to apply for 80-90% of jobs out there. Those are the languages that I'll learn. Of course, the best thing overall is to learn the fundamentals of programming. I think that Java is the best for this. Whilst Python and JavaScript are I think needed for the majority of jobs out there in the current job market.

Although I'm fan of Python but really respect JS, cannot deny its magnificence. Learning both of these benefits a lot, Data Science & AI have a really close connection to Software Dev. Data comes from all kinds of software, even if its from hardware, its required to be passed via software so that it comes to us ultimately. Data is like an extension of developing web, knowing the concepts in data science helps us to sort and filter data from our website correctly to meet the requirements in analysis or building ML models for prediction. Of course, the least fundamental of CS and IT is basic web dev, whatever jobs we do, cannot say that we are working in CS or IT but know nothing about web dev XD. Therefore, everyone who learns about these terms will ultimately face JS, its just a matter of time.

Thanks for information bro !

These things go both ways. Learn JS at a coding bootcamp and there are neat entry-level jobs out there, but pure JS development will only get you so far. Just because a language is popular doesn't mean it pays well. In fact that would make these jobs very competitive as well. I found that the people who really land comfortable jobs at very good pay tend to be those who maintain legacy codebases with ancient languages such as COBOL, Lisp.

Great methodology. I’d be inclined to want to have an adjustment based on salary for different languages.

Que gran video amigo! Saludos!

Amazing work ! Love your methodology. The only thing is that here you are comparing mostly backend languages with JS that is also frontend. So I would like to see where JS is ranked if you only consider it’s backend part… or is that not an issue with the emerging fullstack frameworks like Next, Nuxt etc ? Also, for the trend to be really significant you need to look at more than a 2-year span, otherwise it could be only noise.

Thank you.

thanks bro

Super helpful

This is extremely interesting, maybe do 1 of these video's at the start of every year?

Well done. I use most of the time Scala, which is not so popular but in my opinion one of the best.

Amazing vid very informative & nice to see how you ranking that

Smart video with the right information.

Solid statics and analytics!

mr aaron, many thanks

You've matured a looot Aaron. I'm glad that you look healthy, cheers lad

Just finished the HTML portion in Freemote, thanks for the inspiration and videos about all the opportunities learning to code can bring.

Great video. Objective assessment and transparency

C, C++ and PHP/JS will always be around. They are the backbone of software/web development and the backbone of every single other language on this list. You can replace the body with whatever hot new fad language you prefer, you will always find they used C, or Java (also based on C!) to build those libraries... If you can learn the backbone, the skin can change every 5 years and you can adapt REAL QUICK!

This was a really good video

Dang it! The frustration! I've been learning Ruby in my bootcamp for the last 6 months. Luckily, we've covered some JS too, so it's not completely hopeless.

I really love your this type of video.....

It would be interesting to see a backend/frontend perspective on the same style video. As far as I know, most of javascript is for web frontend. If you dont wanna work with web frontends, you probably dont need to bother with it (chances are high though that your workplace will deploy a javascript front end at some point… so might be good to at least be somewhat knowlegable in it).

Great video!

To identify the overlapping languages you can use set theory (Venn diagams)

Great method and video

The main thing I use python for at work is as a tool for something I need fast. For example as use case study, a binary file to flacc conversion. The python code took my 10 min and around 10 loc

your method so good thanks bro

Very very useful video thanks Aaron

I wonder how the Julia Programming Language would rank...maybe 13th, but something to look at next year. I have been learning python, but now I'm wondering more about Javascript, for front end programming. I just subscribed, so I'm looking forward to more of your videos.

well done

Thanks for this advice! I'm going to focus on freelancing because I'm still in college.

nice content

If you're just starting out I recommend learning C. It is probably the most barebones language out there. So it's good to start from there and then potentially learning higher level stuff like javascript, python etc.

Good way to do it. I'll think something with the salary

Your video thumbnail, animation, editing is just fire 🔥...How do you make such cool video ?

Funny: I recently also performed a "Meta-Analysis" by just checking the first 30 pages that appear when I google "best programming language to learn" and calculated the average for every language. My result was almost exactly the same. Exactly the same for the top 6.

whoooo I knew it ! I thought learning javascript is hopeless but turns out it was useful

Seems like the way to go is to learn some combination of JS/Python/Java, and once you have learned 1 or 2 of those, try to learn one of the more upcoming languages like Rust in order to stay competitive and ahead of the curve

Does anyone or perhaps Aaron himself can please post what software Aaron uses to create his presentations ? Thank you much.

Amazing

Kotlin is actually pretty popular in backend too because of JVM.

I completely agree, but lets keep an eye open for Scala. It's an excellent language to deal with databases, and with the data engineering job growing fast it will be a nice tool one day.

Hey cool video. If you do another in the future you might consider putting the percentage growth next to the trend just to help visualize.

Awesome compilation. Really liked the data driven approach. Thanks for sharing the methodology upfront, which makes the process much more transparent.

I’ve been back and forth between Java script and python. This was great. I was leaning towards Python because of the break from syntax but. I think I’m gonna go w Java next. Just did some courses on HTML/CSS on Udemy. So probably after Java, I’ll go for Python. I just want to quit welding, become a programmer and keep growing and learning. Thanks for this man 🤙

This video is Very helpful

i think you also need to include framework or programming languages related to that, because javascript is also related with React and typescript right? and most job requirement are do so. And if you also add average years of experience of that programming language required for that job, that will be the best chart

By far the BEST WAY to rank programming languages, ever, any year.

Been working primarily in C++ for years in embedded industry. Recently seems like Rust may supersede as the fast, technical backbone language of embedded design.

Awesome

I think this list is fair enough for me

It depends the market. Here in Greece, if you know Php or C#, you will have many offers.

python, was my first language i started to learn, but after a few months i switch to JS and have been focused on that and react for over 5 years now, and i haven't looked back at python since. recently i have been tempted to jump over to C# or java.

This video really helped me finally decide to focus my energy going forward on JS, HTML and CSS. I'm an ICU nurse, burned out on healthcare, hungry to get into programming and work from home. I've taken Codecademy's basic Python3 course, I even got a basic programming cert from the Python Insititute. There's definitely been a feeling throughout though of "How am I gonna translate this into a job?" With front end stuff it just seems more straight forward. Just made my first HTML/CSS only website. It feels like a much more direct path between 1. learning to code and 2. making actual projects that people can easily see and evaluate. This channel has really helped me get oriented in this whole process, so thanks.

Great I am happy that I am working in Both JS and Python.

I think Java is the best to learn data structures and algorithms. JavaScript is a must these days with libraries such React. Especially the rise of Typescript, I think having less errors is the most important way to look at programming.

It should be noted that the language that you may use for web development will be different than the language you use for desktop development. A Web developer will need to keep the latest hotest trendy language to keep up in the job market. Meanwhile an experienced C++ developer, while also needs to keep up with new developments, will likely have more stable career prospects because the competition will be smaller.

Kotlin can be used for more than just android, like server backend, or anywhere Java is used.

This is the only real tier list

Are new projects written in Java? It seems that most switch to either python or go. And what do you think of Kotlin for the backend

Any chance you could go up to top 20 or 30? I feel like the real up and coming tend to start there for a few years.

Languages have also different user bases. It is hard to quantify, but take into account also the number of competitors for a given job. Rust pays well for that reason.

Started to learn programming back in 2013 when I was in middle school, I was taught HTML for website development like most people in my age and area were learning at the time. I feel it was a pretty good start to a young persons development journey and I felt I was getting a good grasp on programming. I had went to high-school and in my second year we were learning python, so considering school I went from HTML to Python. I distinctively remember hating programming after switching from HTML to Python. To my younger self it felt like I went from knowing and understanding everything programming threw at me to not understanding everything and feeling like I was learning something completely new. To then find out that HTML isn't even a programming language... it's a markup language. I tried to learn Java on my own and I was getting the hand of it, but then in my fourth level of high school I was taught C#. C# was a language that really made me understand coding, I had to make projects for the class which were like demo computer programs, we learned how to link C# into databases and this was all taught within a year. At this point of my life I'm not sure if it was because I had a good teacher in my later years or if C# was really that much easier to understand compared to Python, it could've been a mixture of both. Either way after my high school years I never really done much coding, just personal game projects that I would code in Unity, RPG Maker 2003/VX and Pokemon Hack Editor/Creator, those were a mix of Java and C# mostly with some inclusions of other languages. I took a huge hiatus from all coding for about two years because I had to halt my institutional education to work for money, it was tight at home. But I came back to programming and it was literally all a blur, the C#, the Java, the JavaScript. Literally everything looked like Japanese to me after a while. I had to pick up Block-Coding because in my new job I had to teach block coding to younger students (Scratch.mit.edu). I'm not sure what the base language for Scratch is but it really did put me right back on my feet. I practiced and taught Scratch block-coding for about 2 months and I completely understood all the programming and coding I had forgotten over the years... but TENFOLD. Programming has never been this clear to me before, things I never figured out in my old game projects and computer programs I've revisited and have fixed and figured out everything that was wrong including errors that back in High School would've took me 3 weeks to figure out. I'm writing this comment to say that for a brand new learner or for a young learner, someone who hasn't blinked an eye at programming or coding. I highly recommend taking some sort of block-coding course for 1 month first. It sounds long, but it's more than worth it, it's the baby steps to programming but it really did help me as a grown adult. If I could re-learn programming as a child I'd definitely do it in this order: Block Coding (No more than 2 months!!! Just used to get a better understanding) > C# > Javascript > Python > Java > C++.

I don’t understand why Ruby is not more close to Python. It is very similar but has definitely some advantages over Python. Therefore, why is it decreasing? I would wish there would be more love for Ruby 😁

As a system engineer who has been in this field for nine years. I have done some freelance web development. I have never thought of going past that with the exception of Python. I never thought about using any of the C languages, but now I'm reconsidering.

Your correct men, I like your content how programming lanugage must grow, Most company looking for Web developer then javascript is the best

Thx for the video. Im following you in hope to start the damn python :) Greets from Poland.

a lot of jobs have in description python and java preferably java(as it make more difficult to write bad code) but will give result to both

Started JavaScript this week. It’s been kicking my ass ngl lol

As an Indonesian, we still use a lot of PHP to build web application, etc. And it's still one of the most desireable language asked by most of companies in Indonesia Great video!

Why do we live in a world where people prefer javascript over java or go? It's a literal PlaySkool tier language.

Aaron, how do you feel about chatgpt? Do you feel it will replace self taught web devs/programmers? I am looking into getting into this field and have been studying but the current influx of programmers and devs talking about chatgpt has me worried I will be wasting my time.

Python seemed pretty easy to learn for me.

New subscriber here 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️. Love your videos. ❤️