The top ten programming languages

Leland Teschler • Executive Editor Every year, a software bootcamp web site called Coding Dojo announces the top programming languages based on what employers are looking for from applicants. For its study, Coding Dojo looked on a job site called Indeed to discover which languages crop up most often in job descriptions compared to those from previous years. It is interesting to review Coding Dojo's list, particularly for engineers who are in mid-career -- some of the most popular languages were only invented a few years ago. With that in mind, here are languages in highest demand, according to Coding Dojo, along with a brief description of them for those who haven't darkened the halls of academia in a while. Assembly code, of course, refers to any low-level programming language that has a strong correspondence between its instructions and the architecture's machine code instructions.