Top 15 Highest Paying Programming Languages

Terry Larch
ILLUMINATION
Published in
3 min readFeb 25, 2023

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People with little or no programming experience often ask: What is the best programming language to learn? The question is usually followed by “I don’t know where to start, or how long it will take me.”

This is a list of the fifteen highest-paying programming languages. These programming languages pay the most money overall. Learn these languages for a high-paying job. Those who are skilled in specific languages, can become specialists and make even more.

Some of these sought-after languages include Solidity, Rust, Scala, Haskell, Go, TypeScript, Ruby, Perl, F#, Elixir, Erlang, LISP and Swift among others. All of these programming languages are in high demand. However, there are some that have far fewer jobs available.

Picking the right code for your career is quite important. It will help forge a path for you to follow. But often as time goes by developers discover their niche for something else entirely. Sometimes they even choose a different career path.

Have a goal in mind for what it is you want to do and pick a language that is currently in demand in your area or industry. Remember that programming languages are just tools to help you do the job. Picking the right code for your career is of the utmost importance. That being said, there are many general-purpose languages in this list that can do the job for many things.

If you are interested in programming, you surely are wondering what programming language to pick up first. Many…

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