We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings ... want to know about popular languages. If they're building application programming ...

In brief: Learning a programming ... knowing the most popular languages may help some make a critical decision. This choice could make the difference between landing a job or being left back.

I went to the most popular job boards and searched for each programming language by name ... Examine the aggregate data from this study (in the main chart I showed at the top of this article ...

Here are the programming languages you should learn if you always want to have a job, as suggested by the popular TIOBE Index ... desktop applications, websites and mobile applications.