Best programming language to learn in 2024

these are some programming related jobs and here are some programming languages which language should a beginner learn for each of these jobs if you can't answer this question this video is for you you see every year we are bombarded with countless videos about top five programming languages to learn but choosing a programming language solely based on what's popular is like blindly picking a path without knowing where it leads you might eventually reach your goals but it would take you much longer than if you took the right path from the beginning in the same way picking

a programming language based on your interest and career goal goals will help you reach them much faster today I want to tell you which programming language should you learn based on the job you want let's start with game development there are two popular game engines used in the game development industry Unreal Engine and unity if you have ever played fortnite it was developed using Unreal Engine Pokémon go which was all the rage in 2016 was made using Unity if you want to do game development using Unreal Engine you'll need to learn C++ for Unity you'll

have to learn C C++ is a general purpose programming language that was developed as an extension of the C programming language hence the name C++ which in programming is equal to c+1 which signifies an improvement in C language it was designed to provide a higher level abstraction for objectoriented programming while retaining the efficiency and low-level performance of c and this makes C++ very fast and a perfect candidate for graphic heavy applications like game development C on the other hand was developed by Microsoft in the early 2000s original name of C was cool which is sh

for SE likee object oriented language so C also has its origin in C C was developed by Microsoft as a competitor to Java so the syntax of C is very similar to Java let's move on to mobile development there are two ways of developing mobile apps native development and crossplatform development when you build apps for a specific operating system it's called native mobile development for example you can do Android development for Android phones and iOS development for iPhones but as you can imagine developing separate apps for different platforms means more work and can be very

expensive you'll have to hire Android developers and iOS developers to build and support different versions of your app that's why we have a second way of developing mobile apps which is called crossplatform development in crossplatform development we write code once and it works for both Android and iOS let's talk about the languages you need to learn for Native development cotlin was announced as preferred language for Android development by Google in 2019 before that Java was the most used language for Android development cotlin was created as an improvement over java syntax of cotlin is very similar

to Java one of the standout features of cotlin is its built-in null safety nullable and non-nullable types are distinguished in the type system which helps eliminate null pointer exceptions which is a very common cause of bugs in many programming languages cotlin is fully interoperable with Java which means that it can be seamlessly used alongside existing Java code bases for iOS development Swift is the language of choice Swift was created by Apple specifically to build apps for iOS before Swift Objective C was used for iOS development but since Objective C is a language from 80s it

lacked several modern features so Apple developed Swift for better performance and interoperability with Objective C moving on to crossplatform development there are two main Frameworks to discuss here first one is react native which was developed by Facebook and the second one is flutter which was developed by Google react native allows developers to build mobile apps using react which is a very popular JavaScript library JavaScript is a high level interpreted programming language primarily used for developing web apps we will discuss react and JavaScript in detail when we cover web development flutter on the other hand uses

dot as the programming language unlike JavaScript dot is a compiled language dot offers features like just in time compiler for development and ahead of time compiler for release this enables fast execution of flutter applications let's switch gears and talk about artificial intelligence and machine learning after the release of chat GPT last year AI is all the race right now for AI by python is the Undisputed Top Choice like JavaScript python is also a high level interpreted language pandas and napai are the two most important python libraries for data manipulation and Analysis psyit learn is the

library that provides various machine learning algorithms if you're interested in deep learning you would want to learn tensorflow pytorch or Caris moving on let's talk about one of the most popular domains among programmers which is web development web development has two main components front-end development and backend development to understand what each of these means let's take the example of a login page when you enter your username and password in these text input boxes all of that is happening in the front end of the website after you hit the login button a request is sent via

the Internet to a server somewhere far away this server can talk to a database that stores all the passwords safely This Server retrieves the password from the database using the username you provided Compares this password with what you entered in the front end and decides whether to let you log in or not the server and the database are the back end of this website HTML CSS and JavaScript are the building blocks of front-end development on the login page HTML decides that there is a login button here CSS decides that the button is blue in color

and JavaScript decides what happens when you click this button along with HTML CSS and JavaScript you might also want to learn react which is a popular JavaScript library or angular which is a typescript based framework typescript is a statically typed variation of JavaScript for backend development you have many different options you can use JavaScript with the help of nodejs you would typically learn a JavaScript library like Express for backend another option you have is to use Python with Jango or flask you can also use Java with spring boot PHP with laravel is another option in

other words there are many options here if I was speaking a programming language here I would pick JavaScript because you can use it in both front end and back end for querying the database you would also want to learn structured query language or SQL moving on if you want to work in embedded systems or operating systems you need to learn a programming language that has lowlevel capabilities in particular you need a language that can manually manage memory there are three main options here C which is basically the mother of most modern programming languages C is

a procedural language that provides no support for objects and classes next option we have is C++ which as discussed earlier is an objectoriented programming language that provides ability to manage memory with the help of pointers last option is rust which is relatively newer among the three options rust achiev safety and memory management through its ownership sh and borrowing system rust is constantly ranked among the most loved programming languages in recent times devops is next for those who don't know devops Engineers enable an organization to deliver applications and services fast python is a popular scripting language

among devops Engineers golang is another language that's gaining massive popularity in devop space other than that you would also need to know bash scripting let's quickly talk about arvr now ever since Apple launched Vision Pro this area is heating up to develop AR V experiences for Apple you'll have to learn Swift UI we still need to see how the launch of Apple Vision Pro plays out so if you want to pick a language based on the current reality of the market I would pick C++ or C that's because vast majority of developers use unity and

Unreal Engine for arvr development let's talk about blockchain development now though the interest in blockchain development has reduced recently I don't see why it would not pick back up once the market improves solidity is the most popular programming language among blockchain developers solidity is a high level programming language specifically designed for developing smart contracts on blockchain platforms like ethereum in terms of syntax solidity is similar to JavaScript I know that picking a programming language from all these different options is very hard if you want to know three languages I recommend and how to learn them

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