Programming Languages That Developers Need to Learn All the Time

There are thousands of programming languages, but what kind of languages do we need to master?

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There are thousands of programming languages in the world, but only about twenty programming languages are competing with each other in the modern software development industry. Also, some programmers developed esolangs like Emojicode, COW for entertainment and experimental purposes. Nowadays, popular programming languages, like Go, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, and C++ dominate the software development market.

Programmers typically master various programming languages during their software development careers. For example, if you start working with a Flutter-based mobile project, you have to learn Dart — if you got a task to write a native Flutter plugin, then you have to learn Swift/Objective-C and Kotlin/Java. During the software development career, every programmer thinks about questions like, Is it okay to learn only one language all the time? What’s the best programming language to learn? How many languages do I need to master?

I learned more than ten programming languages, including currently outdated languages like Pascal and Visual Basic. In this story, I will explain what type of languages you need to learn to become a…