The programming language you should learn next.

Denny Headrick
4 min readAug 7, 2020

What programming language should I learn? What programming languages are popular?

Such a common questions. And it has many answers. But almost no one answers it right. By the end of this post, not only will you know where I stand on this topic, you will know better where you stand on the topic.

Before you read any further, answer yourself one thing — do you already have a language in mind? If so, chances are that you are looking for some confirmation in this post that the language you are thinking about. If that’s the case, please stop. This post isn’t for you. What you’re looking for is a post that praises that language. Here are some searches to get you going:

And if you’re upset that the language you were thinking of isn’t in that list of searches, you really aren’t looking for my advice anyway.

Perhaps you’re completely lost and want an opinion. The Stack Overflow 2020 Survey had some interesting results for a variety of questions. And they all imply different things.

What languages do

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