What is the best programming language on the market these days?

Double A plus B: What is the best programming language on the market these days?
I would like to be a computer programmer, but I would need to know what are the best programming languages on the market needed that I must learn. Please, I want to jump in the market and I need some vital info so not as to make a fool of myself. Please let me know what language(s) I need to learn in order to be a computer programmer for games. R.S.V.P.

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Answer by J
“Please, I want to jump in the market and I need some vital info so not as to make a fool of myself.”

Jumping in the market will make a fool of yourself…

Answer by The occassional helper.Swines
If you are alone and have no idea-JAVA
If you want something really useful, C++

Also, What market? I NOT HELPING YOU IF YOU NOT MAKE FREE!

I don’t get what you want to do though, I doubt we’d buy anything unless it was totally awesome (Like minecraft which i think is written in JAVA)

Answer by Carling
If you don’t know by now what the up and coming operating system is going to be then you need to do your research, That operating system is Linux If you have not heard of Google Android then where have you been for the last six month, It’s taking over the mobile phones, Linux is taking over the Computer operating systems by storm

Linux is free to download with all the programing languages available and there are loads of free Tutorials available check out the links
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=linux+tutorials+free&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=free+java+tutorials+for+beginners&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
for free Linux check this out
https://distrowatch.com/

Answer by J.J.’s Advice / Avis de J.J.
There is no “best” language. There are many different languages that are used depending on the programmer’s needs and preferences. Here’s a basic list of languages every programmer should know:

Markup:
HTML
XHTML
XML

Scripting:
PHP
ASP.NET
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript

Programming:
C
C++
Java
C#

Answer by possum
There is no “best” language.

If you were in a corporate environment, they’ll already have a talent pool, and so, your best bet would be to start with that.

If you are to be a consultant, then, you need to learn a variety – not “the best”.

However, the most common would be .NET (which means VB.NET and C#), and Java. If you learn these, you cover most territory.

If you are new to the industry, you won’t easily get a job doing low-level programming, like assembler, C, or C++. These are not good starting points, and to get these jobs you tend to need to be eased into it – like from college or from within the company.

But, the language is the easy part. Learning the libraries is the tough part. In the business world, you have to have understanding about…

_files (locking, io, performance, sequential access, random access, buffers),

_databases (sql, connections, pools, concurrency, isolation, normalization, indexing, etc),

_XML (structure, parsing, building, accessing elements, xpath, transformations, etc),

_SOA,

_SOAP,

_webservices (ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, JSP)

And you should know about best practices, so you need to know about development methodologies and design patterns.

I could go on, I don’t mean to discourage, but really – you should take a course in computers to decide what language suits you the best, where that language is typically used, and then target that industry.

You can’t just learn C and then go out job hunting. It just doesn’t work that way.