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“What programming languages should I learn<\/em>” is one of the most popular questions these days. It’s complicated. There are so many languages to choose from these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever you have too many choices it is harder to actually decide to learn one language. You might know the famous “Jam study” by psycho-economist Sheena Iyengar, who found that shoppers who were confronted with 24 different jams where very unlikely to buy one. (The sweet spot for jams, no pun intended, is a choice of six different jams).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We love options and alternatives, but more choices make it harder to decide. That is true for web development, too. That’s why I want to break it down for you and make it very easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s still up to you which programming languages<\/strong> to try, but you will have a pretty good overview to start from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The new year motivated us to think about learning a new programming language. Inspired by Alexander Falks’ post “Learn a new programming language this summer<\/a>” we are opening the learning season 2017: <\/em>\u201cWhat programming languages should I learn in 2017?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crowd-sourced: The most popular programming languages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

GitHub, StackOverflow, and our own developer survey bring some light to the most popular ones in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With more than 10,000 votes on our own survey on the most popular programming languages, you can see a clear trend towards JavaScript, Python, and Java.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we look at Stackoverflow’s yearly developer’s study, we’ll find a similar picture of the most popular programming languages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. JavaScript<\/strong> – 66.7%<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. SQL<\/strong> – 53.7%<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Java<\/strong> – 38.3%<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. C#<\/strong> – 36.7%<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Python<\/strong> – 27.6%<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. PHP<\/strong> – 27.2%<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. C++<\/strong> – 19.3%<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. C<\/strong> – 15.4%<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. TypeScript<\/strong> – 11.3%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Similar studies from GitHub agree on that. JavaScript, Python, & Java are the most popular programming languages in 2017 measured by the number of pull requests on github.com.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    We conducted our own survey & researched the most popular programming languages. We conclude with the following programming languages for 2017:<\/p>\n\n\n\n