“Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It’s the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.” -Anonymous

The beauty of programming is that the more you know, the better it becomes to learn a new one. With the changing hardware systems and software specifications, it has become important for a developer to be comfortable with the changing languages. And you just don’t have to write a code but a code which does wonder. Moreover, if there is no ‘want’ to increase the skill level set of yours, people shouldn’t come into the software industry. So we are in later stages of the second decade of 21st century and I have compiled here a list of programming languages which might be extensively used in future. Many of the languages are being currently used in various sectors.

1) GO or Golang: Currently GoLang developers are paid around ₹ 10L-15L package by various companies in India. These figures figure must surely soar high.

2) R: Data Miners use R for developing statistical software and data analysis. Data Scientists are paid around ₹ 8L and Data Analyst are paid around ₹ 5L as a package.

3) Arduino: It is inexpensive, cross-platform, simple & clear programming environment, open source and extensible software-hardware. With IoT, more and more devices have embedded chips who are instructed using Arduino.

4) Java to Java8: Gives functional techniques which helps to unlock parallelism in the code which might help the code to be cleaner, faster and less buggy. Java runs on 7 billion devices and the ‘dark’ continent as well as Asia gradually embracing the technology, Java still has a longer lifespan than any of us can imagine.

6) Python: Most fun and easy to use language which is similar to English. Python developers are paid around ₹ 6–10L package with an experience of 2–3 years. Mostly used in web apps and in data analysis.

8) Ruby: It is used to develop web apps and websites with less code and rapid development. Very less job openings but the package starts from ₹ 15L to 50L. Surely the job of the future.

9) Javascript → CoffeeScript: JavaScript programmers grew tired of typing all those semicolons and curly brackets. So they created CoffeeScript, a preprocessing tool that turns their syntactic shorthand back into regular JavaScript.

10) Swift: Language developed by Apple when their developers were frustrated with C language. Since ioS development will be moved to swift from objective-c, google, facebook and uber will surely take a note of it. Presently, swift is used in ios apps only. In India, with an experience of 4–5 years, you can expect a package of around ₹ 20–35 lakh in the industry.

Other Mentions: Jolt, Haskell, CUDA, Less.js, D, Elm, Rust, Kotlin, Crystal, Elixir, MATLAB, Scala.