Python
General-purpose language born in 1991, top choice for AI and data science, perennial TIOBE number one
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General-purpose language born in 1991, top choice for AI and data science, perennial TIOBE number one
Scripting language born in 1995 for web interactivity, the world's most widely used language
Released by Sun in 1995, mainstay language for enterprise backends and Android development
Extended from C in 1985, top choice for game engines and high-performance systems
Invented in 1972, foundational language of Unix and the Linux kernel
Launched by Microsoft in 2000, mainstay of the .NET ecosystem, common in Unity game development
Released by Microsoft in 2012, a superset adding static typing to JavaScript
Launched by Google in 2009, language of cloud-native projects like Docker and Kubernetes
Started by Mozilla in 2010, memory-safe, now approved for the Linux kernel
Born in 1995, powers WordPress and most dynamic websites worldwide
Introduced by Apple in 2014, the preferred language for iOS and macOS apps
Created by JetBrains in 2011, Google's officially designated preferred Android language
Invented by Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1995, elegant syntax, mother of Ruby on Rails
Proposed by IBM in 1974, universal query language for relational databases
Launched by Google in 2011, the language of Flutter cross-platform app development
Data analysis language beloved by statisticians, with a vast CRAN ecosystem
Released by MIT in 2012, a new language built for high-performance scientific computing
Released in 2004, functional language on the JVM, Apache Spark is written in it
Born in 1984, Apple's early mainstay language for iOS and macOS development
Invented by Larry Wall in 1987, king of regex text processing
Created in Brazil in 1993, lightweight embedded scripting, common in games and Roblox
Purely functional language standardized in 1990, used in academia and finance
Released in 2012, high-concurrency fault-tolerant language built on the Erlang VM
Designed by Gavin Wood in 2014, the language for Ethereum smart contracts
Made by MathWorks, the standard tool for numerical computing in engineering and science
Low-level language closest to hardware, directly manipulating CPU instructions and registers
Microsoft BASIC-family language, a classic choice for rapid Windows development
Released by IBM in 1957, the oldest high-level language, pioneer of scientific computing
Started by Andrew Kelley in 2016, a performance- and safety-focused C alternative
Released by Borland in 1995, rapid development tool for Object Pascal
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