

The listed programming languages are general purpose and highly applicable on many platforms - desktop, server or mobile - to create anything from games to serious business systems. The fact that those languages are so widespread and popular makes any of them fun and easy to learn and potentially very useful in a programmer’s career. The list is taken from programming language rankings research by The RedMonk 2016 and includes the most popular general purpose languages: Skip all the words and jump to the tool Contenders In the spirit of that saying let’s elaborate on how to choose a second programming language if you already know one.

Follow second programming language to learn?Ī language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
