21 Most Common Computer Programming Languages

What is a Computer Programming language?

This can be defined as a formal and specific machine language that can be constructed for the computer to interpret and carry out a specific task or multi-task as quickly and better as possible.

There are many computer programming languages with different lines of code and interpretation.

There was a time when a neighbour just finished his professional career in computer science in number college, Canada after longing for his college certificate only for him to realize that, completing computer science studies is just the beginning to guide him in what he like as he had wanted to study software development and network engineering in Sheridan.

Computer programming is a very competitive field and high paying but you need specialized knowledge and to establish yourself as an expert in coding.

The same happens if you’re already a computer programmer, you must choose the programming languages to study thoroughly in school.

You may be faced with a difficult choice because the languages have very different objectives and depending on those you dominate, so will be your work area in the future.

To say that there are better or worse programming would be a great lie, in many cases, it is defined only by fashion or by demand.

Languages such as C or C++ have been with us for more than 30 years and remain in force, others only acquire fame for a while and then disappear.

To have a better reference, we can take the list of most popular programming languages, elaborated by Fossbytes and is a compilation of data from the user activity of GitHub and StackOverflow which makes it quite reliable.

The measurement was made and is still relevant this year.

1. javascript
2. java
3. PHP
4. Python
5. C #
6. C++
7. Ruby
8. CSS
9. C
10. Objective-C
11. Shell
12. R
13. Perl
14. Scala
15. Go
16. Haskell
17. Swift
18. Matlab
19. Visual Basic
20. Clojure
21. Groovy