What language do you use most as a professional developer?

Question

Curious: I know there are multiple articles and blogs about this, but I was wondering if there are any professionals here on SoloLearn. If so, what language(s) do you predominantly use? I'd love to know what's being done in the real world for my future career. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

My professional experience is a bit specialized, being focused on scientific programming. I've used a wide variety of languages, with Fortran and C/C++, with shell or perl scripting for utility (but that was taking care of older code, so again, biased towards those languages).

My new job is largely Java (web tools for the observers), with shell scripts for utility work, so far, but I know they're also incorporating Python into their projects.

It will vary quite a bit depending on what type of work you do, and the environment. If I'd gotten the job with the other group in the same place, it would have been primarily C++, and I bet they would have found some Fortran for me to maintain (it would have been more equipment control & monitoring instead of UI work).

Answer 2

If you do, take that look from the perspective of it being an old and rather specialized tool. It is from the era of Cobol and Basic (not the visual version, the original), and designed to be focused on maintaining numerical accuracy, and the performance of complicated calculations (it even has a fundamental operation for "raise to a power" (**)).

With care, you can do these things in modern languages, and not have done of the clunkier work-arounds that Fortran was forced to use.

Answer 3

I like HTML best.

Answer 4

@Jim Awesome, thanks for the input! I may need to check out Fortran.