New programming languages that you better know by 2017

Diana Salacka
DreamCommerce
Published in
2 min readNov 25, 2016

As the world develops, programming languages develop with it. There are some programming trends, that will determine the future of internet technologies, and in order to stay on track, we should keep on learning. What are the most popular languages, that are predicted to be “the it” for 2017? Stay with us and observe!

Rust

Created by Graydon Hoare and supported by Mozilla’s Research, Rust is a syntactically similar to C and C++ language, that has been rated “Most Loved Programming Language of 2016 ” by Stack Overflow Developer Survey. This language is designed for programming in the large and creating highly safe and concurrent systems. Despite Mozilla’s influence and sponsorship, it’s an open community project and has just came to it’s 2016 update — the 1.10 version

Dart

Google’s Go younger brother, that has not reached the peak of popularity quite yet. Dart was designed to conquer the new world of Internet of Things, modern app development and high performance architecture. It’s a class-based and object-oriented language, that is complemented by web developers and even microprocessor designers, because of it’s high performance features. It is said to substitute and become the new JavaScript of the future.

Hack

A PHP so to say slang (or professionally: dialect), Hack was designed by Facebook, to migrate the portal’s codebase form PHP. And it worked almost entirely. It’s an open source language that can be embedded in HTML, used not only by Facebook, but partly in Wikipedia. If you are PHP native, Hack is going to be just an ad, that will make the development process faster.

Julia

Designed by computer scientists, Jeff Bezanson & Stefan Karpinski, Julia is the all in one language, that allows you to work on big datasets. It’s a high-level dynamic programming language with a mathematical turn. It has similar to Phyton capabilities, with direct calling of C and Fortran libraries without the glue code. Numerical and scientific computing fit well with Julia, and that’s why banking, insurance and managing companies use it.

Scala

This language has been on the market since 2004 and evaluated since. Built by Martin Odersky and inspired by Java criticism, Scala has gained sympathy of companies such as Twitter, LinkedIn or Intel. It’s a multi-paradigm & object-oriented language, that is said to grow in popularity, because of it’s functionality. From 2012 till now it reaches the picks of usability and good reputation follows.

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Diana Salacka
DreamCommerce

A philosopher by passion and marketing specialist by a hobby… Or the other way around? Picking up the pace with DreamCommerce in IT updates, apps and news.