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A Senior Engineer at Google Reveals “The Best Programming Language To Learn in 2025”
I am a senior software engineer at Google Singapore and very often I am asked about which programming language to learn
Sometimes this question manifests as “Should I learn Java, Python or JavaScript?”
To be completely honest, I decided to write this article after reading a take on the same question by Eric Von Reinhard in the article “The Best Programming Language To Learn in 2022? — Google Lead Developer Explains”. In fact, I decided to write about this because I have a very different opinion about this question, so please don’t mind the inspired title.
So, Which One?
I recommend “no specific one”.
It doesn’t matter if you start with C++ or Java or Python or Javascript or any other language for that matter. Learning a new language doesn’t take long and it shouldn’t be a #1 priority either.
Programming languages are means to the end (there I said it, again!) and in practice we tend to keep switching to one or the other which gets our work done.
I started my journey with C++ in high school, spent a lot of time doing Javascript in university. My job at Microsoft…
