Unit 13 Reading — Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages (2025 Edition)

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Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages (2025 Edition)

Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages

There are hundreds of programming languages in use today. How can you know which one to learn next? Or which one is best for your career in IT? That depends on what you want to do—but a good start is to learn one of the world’s top 10 most popular languages. These are used by millions of developers around the world and are always in demand in the job market.

Learning to code takes time and patience. You’ll have lots of questions at first, and that’s normal. Remember: every programmer started as a beginner. Don’t be afraid to ask for help, search online, or read the documentation. It can take years to master a language, but if you learn something new every day, you’ll eventually be good enough to get real work done.

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Discussion Questions
  • Which programming languages do you already know? Which ones do you want to learn? Why?
  • Which language do you think is best for making banking software? Web pages? Games? Text processing?
  • Computer languages such as FORTRAN and COBOL were once very popular, but not so much anymore. Why do you think they lost popularity? Which languages in the top 10 do you think will drop in 10 years? Which one will gain in popularity?

Quiz: Reading Comprehension

1. C, C++ and C# are good examples of object-orientated languages.
 
 
2. Java does not run natively like C++, it needs a virtual machine.
 
 
3. Python is generally slower than C, because it is interpreted at runtime and not pre-compiled.
 
 
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