Top Programming Languages in 2020

Over 5% of 2020 and over 0.5% of the decade is already behind us.

It’s time to evaluate the programming language popularity trends for 2020. What coding languages are still the creme de la creme in this year?

There are different answers, because there are different methodologies and ways to measure what the best software development language is. There’s popularity, there’s average salary, or the amount of college students attending classes, or the amount of certified developers, and a lot more.

We’ve examined some of the existing lists of top 2020 programming languages and will present out meta-analysis results below. Let’s go down the list of lists!

Merehead top coding languages for 2020 list

The list published here contains the following languages:

• Kotlin
• HashiCorp Configuration Language: HCL
• Go
• Javascript
• Typescript
• Python
• Java
• PHP

The list is based on Github data, PYPL-index and Tiobe, and Stackoverflow activity.

Hackr.io top programming languages of 2020 list

The website lists their selection here and here’s how it looks:

• Python
• Java
• C/C++
• Javascript
• Go
• R
• Swift
• PHP
• C#
• Matlab

The logic behind the selection of these as the top programming languages of 2020 is “job search and salary prospects”.

GeeksforGeeks top programming languages list 2020

GeeksforGeeks lists the following languages as the best to master in 2020:

• Javascript
• Python
• Java
• C/C++
• PHP
• Swift
• C#
• Ruby
• Objective-C
• SQL

The languages are selected based on “what the market says” according to the website.

IEEE Computer Society top programming languages for 2020

Computer.org gives the following list as the top for 2020:

• Python
• Kotlin
• Java
• Javascript/NodeJS
• TypeScript
• Go
• Swift

These languages are “hot in the industry” according to the blog post author Gaurav Belani

So far it looks like the top programming languages in 2020 include Python, Java, Javascript and Go – so if you want to be sure you have enough work opportunities.