Emerging Programming Languages Career Minded Developers Should Learn
If you're a developer looking to increase your employability, then learning a new language is always a good strategy. But the big question is this: Which language should you learn?
Take a look right now and you see plenty of vacancies for programmers with skills in programming languages such as Java, C, C++, C# and Objective C, scripting languages including Python, PHP, Ruby and JavaScript, and database programming in SQL.
If you want to stay ahead of the pack, though, and be able to take your pick of the plum jobs of the future, then it may be worth looking beyond Java, Python and these other languages.
For most organizations, Java, C++ and C# are just too entrenched to replace, "and there's very few enterprises that want to expand the languages they use too much."
But the signs say a few new languages are catching on.
Dart: Replacement for JavaScript
Dart is an open source language developed by Google as a replacement for JavaScript. Like other JavaScript replacement languages such as CoffeeScript, it's not hard for JavaScript developers to learn. It's significant because it has been designed to make it easy to build large scale, multi-developer Web apps — something JavaScript itself isn't really suited to.
Right now, Dart applications can run in Chrome's built-in Dart VM or in other browsers through cross compilation to JavaScript.
Why learn Dart? Google's backing ensures that Dart has a good chance of succeeding.
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