We are surrounded by hundreds of programming languages, but you can’t learn all of them. In this article, I am going to explain a few simple points to consider while choosing your next programming language to learn.

If you are wondering what programming languages I know, well I wouldn’t exactly say I am good at them but I can write programs in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Dart, Bashas well as a little of Java and C/C++. I know TypeScript isn’t exactly a language but after Deno, you can say so. I wouldn’t brag about it but I used to work on PHP in the early days.

So does having the baggage of these many languages worth it? Well, it depends who you ask but my answer is always, Yes. Actually, I am planning to learn Rust next, so enough is never enough for me. However, I don’t encourage this practice in certain contexts. Let me elaborate.

Let’s first understand what a programming language is. A programming language is a way to write instruction to process input data and produce some output data or an effect on a computer. For example, you can write a program to calculate the sum of two numbers. Similarly, you can write a program to display a picture on your screen or play a sound.

But there isn’t a universal programming language just as there is no universal spoken language. You can pretty much write a program to calculate the sum of two numbers in any programming language including Bash. But it’s not the programming language itself which is the deciding factor but how it works plays a more important role.

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