If you look at developer job boards today, many of the openings request skills in well-known languages like Java, C, C++, C#, Objective C, Python, PHP, Ruby and JavaScript. But these standbys probably won’t be at the top of the heap forever. Which languages should developers learn now to increase their employability a decade or two down the road?
CIO put together a list of the six most promising new languages, along with the reasons why experts say they may soon become more popular. They include the following:
- Dart?Google’s backing could help it replace JavaScript.
- Opa?It simplifies the creation of complex Web applications.
- Scala?It’s highly scalable, works with Java and is popular with enterprise application development teams.
- Erlang?It isn’t exactly new, but it’s concurrency features are making it newly popular.
- Ceylon?Red Hat designed it to replace Java.
- Go?It’s excellent for cloud computing projects.