SEE: Six in-demand programming languages: Getting started (free PDF) In its State of Software Engineers Report 2020, Hired said that the most in-demand programming language also varies by ...

In the world of programming languages, sometimes you don’t need the overhead and performance of Java, C#, C++ and other power tools. Sometimes a scripting language, or Swiss army knife, will do.

The programming language is designed to have it all—the speed of C, the dynamism of Ruby, true macros like Lisp, mathematically power like MATLAB, the usability of Python, ease of statistical ...