It has been almost eight months in 2020, and yet the forecasts for 2020 do not seem to end. While predicting the future of such a dynamically changing industry, as a software developer, it is not a simple task to survive. People who are engaged with software may have seen many technologies come and be gone forever, without even knowing, since it’s hard to survive in the software industry.

But if we look back, programming languages have a huge history with many key components. C and Java are two of the oldest and still survive in the industry. But if we check out which positions they are in or how much popularity they have gained, we can say that the curve is going down.

As a developer, I am in love with JavaScript (like; I am having an eternal bond) and have been using JavaScript for some time now. But if we can open our eyes and look around the developer world, things might have slightly changed. Let’s select what language to use in 2021 out of JavaScript, Python, and Go. Before talking about the pros of each language, let me show you some online surveys and their results.

Surveys and Other Data

Stack Overflow survey

Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey is the largest and most comprehensive survey of people who code around the world. Over 90,000 developers have taken part in this survey. As per them, we can see that Python leads the ladder while JavaScript and Go are at the second and third places, respectively. But wait — -this is the survey which was conducted in 2019. As a rapidly growing language, the popularity of Go is increasing crazily. I think stats are probably going to change in 2021.

Figure 01: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019

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