Published By: Ed Powers

5 Top Programming Languages to learn

For some, coding in a programming language is a passion. But only when you know the languages that are in heavy circulation that you can take them up to make a career out of it.

Websites that you browse and apps that you download and use have to be written. This act of writing down a language to construct or programming a website or an app is called coding. There are as much as 700 coding languages that currently exists. While all of them must have their own uniqueness, these five are the most used for programming purposes.

JavaScript (aka JS)

Extremely versatile for building interactive front-end user interfaces, is lightweight and easy to implement as it is integrated with HTML. This interpreted programming language designed for creating network-centric applications is used everywhere on the internet. Complimentary to and integrated with Java, this open and cross-platform language is also used for applications like AI and others.

Python

In spite of being a high-level programming language, this elegant, interpreted, object-oriented script with dynamic semantics is easy to learn, even for absolute starters and it also reduces program maintenance due to the readability of its syntax. Supportive of modules and packages, Python encourages program modularity and code usages. Highly productive, like C++ & Java, economical in its codification, the implementation of this application can be experienced in real-time. Maybe comparatively slow yet it's one of the best languages for AI and machine learning.

Java

More applicable to large enterprise-class applications - works great with very large scale system within corporate environments, than smaller scales. Java, class-based, object-oriented programming, is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. Providing structure, maintainability of code, simple, platform-independent, multi-threaded and secure, its similar to PHP, to which its gradually losing out to - due to taking up bigger memory space and being slower in action.

Go

Similar to C, but with memory-safety, garbage-collection, structural-typing, and CSP-style concurrency Go or Golan, a compiled programming language designed at Google, is an open-source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Sometimes lacking in versatility due to its overt-simplicity, it nonetheless is recently being used in AI and ML.

TypeScript

Providing for better interface modules, easier coding, navigation, error management, inter alia, simply put, TypeScript, a superset of the JavaScript language, simplifies and greatly improves the plain JavaScript code, making it easier to read and debug. Developed by a single main vendor, Microsoft, it has a single open-source compiler and lots of additional features that are being constantly updated to make coding, navigation and programming interface easily programmable and user-friendly. Though some coders complain about over-complicated typing system with respect to JavaScript, it does accord better type annotations and overall interface.