Answer 1

It’s a valid question of course, but it’s almost like someone asking:

“What car should I buy?”

The answer depends on a lot of things in this case. What is your budget? Do you want new or old? Must it be big or small? What specs would you like? etc.

Bringing it back to web development terms, it follows the same principle of the car scenario.

- What is your current web development knowledge?

- What is the purpose of you studying programming?

- How much time do you have available?

- Do you want to work for yourself or for a company?

- Do you prefer frontend or backend?

- How much are you willing to invest on learning?

etc.

Before getting started, I must mention that programmers / web developers / software engineers are interesting people...

If I were to mention ‘x’ programming language, you will get those who say, “but what about ‘y’ programming language?”

The bottom line is that this is not a complete list mentioning all the programming languagesavailable. It’s just a simplified and relevant list for 2018 based on what I can see.

With that said, I will try my best to answer this question without offending too many people and at the same time, helping others.

So, “how do you measure the popularity of a programming language?”

JavaScript
Java
Python
TypeScript
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Elixir
Rust
Go
C#
Swift(also VR and Kotlin)
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