The Best Programming Language To Learn In 2022

The Secret Developer’s Take

The Secret Developer
5 min readFeb 9, 2022
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Times change, new programming languages are developed and older programming languages are put out to pasture.

So what is the recommendation for a programming language in 2022?

It all depends on you and what you want to achieve

Which is genuinely the best advice anyone can give. What does that mean in a practical sense? Read on to find out!

What is a Programming Language?

A computer runs a series of instructions in machine code in order to solve a problem. People find it difficult to write in machine code because it does not resemble natural language (like English) or even mathematics.

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In order to make things easier, people developed languages that can then be translated by the machine into machine code.

A low-level language might be assembly. This is closer to natural language than machine code, but with commands like LOAD , MUL, DIV and RET along with memory locations can be difficult to translate into instructions that…

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