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How many programming languages do you know?

Feel free to offer a personal definition of "know" 😅

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Joe Mainwaring

I wouldn't consider myself proficient today in all of these languages, but in 20 years I've learned and worked with:

  • C++
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Ruby
  • .NET/VBA
  • Python
  • TypeScript

My Language of Choice today is TypeScript.

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Lyan Chin
  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • Object-C
  • Swift
  • Javascript
  • Dart
  • Python
  • PHP
  • Typescript
  • Html
  • CSS
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Uriel Bitton

Java
C++
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Prolog
TypeScript
HTML/CSS

The rest are all frameworks and libraries like react, angular, node, etc

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Javier RV

C#
Vb
Php
JavaScript
C++
Java

Very few language's. I think that to fully master and upgrade you need to focus on one environment, now deepened only NET

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Ravi Krishnappa

The next iteration of this survey should focus on the languages used by the dev.to member in the last 5 years to build something. And to also get another feedback about the approximate number of users using that application.

I know Python, Java, Go, Rust, Julia, SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, C#, COBOL, JavaScript, R,TypeScript and Assembly. But I have used Python, JavaScript and SQL to build custom business applications.

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manu
  • Definitely JavaScript because I'm obsessed with
  • PHP? kinda
  • HTML (Not a programming language, but whatever)
  • Python
  • Good enough knowledge about CSS
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Lindsay Wardell

At this point in my career, I've professionally written:

  • Javascript/Typescript (including Node, React, Vue, Svelte, and Electron as runtimes/frameworks)
  • PHP
  • SQL
  • Java
  • C#
  • Ruby
  • Elm
  • Haskell
  • Docker (does it count? It's fairly specific)
  • HTML/CSS (whether they're programming languages or not isn't important)

Also used an old development platform called "Magic" from the 90's, I was maintaining a legacy app for a couple years and it occasionally needed UX updates for new workflows.

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Thomas Junkツ

I would better describe it as »Languages I once knew« or »Languages I was at some point in my life able to write programs in«

6501 Assembler
C64 BASIC
C128 BASIC
Action Script
AMIGA BASIC
Bash
C
C#
C++
CoffeeScript
Delphi
Elixir
Elm
F#
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
Javascript
Ocaml
Pascal
Perl
Powershell
Prolog
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Scratch
SQL
ZX 81 BASIC
ZX Spectrum BASIC

But today it comes down to Javascript, Python, Go and SQL.

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Warisul Imam

Let's see.

  • python
  • javascript
  • julia
  • bash
  • c/c++
  • kotlin

And markup, styling, and query languages

  • LaTex
  • SQL
  • HTML
  • CSS

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