Learning to program is never too late, although, depending on the language we want to learn, we must dedicate more or less time to it. Also, first of all, we must know which is the language that has the most job opportunities if we are thinking of changing jobs or directing our future to the world of programming. It is useless to use a programming language that was very popular a decade ago, such as Ruby, when in recent years it is Python that is taking the upper hand.
A few days ago we published a piece of news in which we talked about the most used programming languages throughout 2022, according to the number of projects that developers had uploaded to GitHub. According to this analysis, the most used language has once again been JavaScript, followed by Python, Java. In fourth and fifth position, we find Typescript and C#.
These languages have been the three most used by GitHub developers in the last 5 years, so we can already get an idea of which is the best option. If we take into account that GitHub is the most widely used platform in the world by the developer community, it would not be necessary to have other sources to confirm which is the most popular programming language today.
However, it never hurts to compare this information with other reports such as the one published by TIOBE and that corresponds to 2022. According to him, the three most used programming languages throughout this year that we are about to finish have been Python, C and C++, followed by Java and C#. As we can see, both reports agree that Python, C++ and Java are the three most used, however, while JavaScript is the most used according to GitHub, TIOBE states that this language is in seventh position.
The guys at TIOBE get their information from a very different source from GitHub, since their main source of information is based on the search results of Google, Bing, Wikipedia, Baidu and YouTube among others, information on which they are based to create this ranking, hence it differs slightly in some languages such as JavaScript.
TIOBE states that the results of this ranking do not mean that the top rankings are the best programming languages today. Nor are they the languages with the most lines of code that have been written throughout this year that we are about to end.
In what, if both reports agree, consulting previous years, is that, in the last 5 years, the programming languages that have the greatest number of professional opportunities are:
- Python
- Java
- C.
- C++
- javascript
If we plan to find a job as a programmer, we must master one of these 5 languages. On the internet we can find a large number of free courses to take the first steps in these languages. In addition, we can expand our knowledge through the large number of tutorials available on YouTube.
