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Discover the Top Paying Technologies of 2023! 💰💻

📣 Top Paying Technologies 📣

So without further ado, let's dive into the numbers and discover the most lucrative programming languages of 2023.

Zig - $103,611

Zig is an imperative, general-purpose, statically typed, compiled system programming language designed by Andrew Kelley.

Erlang - $99,492

Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment.

F# - $99,311

F# is a universal programming language for financial and scientific applications in particular.

Ruby - $98,522

A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity

Clojure - $96,381

Clojure is a dynamic and functional dialect of the Lisp programming language on the Java platform.

Elixir - $96,381

Elixir is a functional programming language that runs in the Erlang VM, a powerful environment to run distributed systems.

Lisp - $96,381

Lisp, is a functional programming language that was designed for easy manipulation of data strings.

Scala - $96,381

Scala is a high-level programming language that has both functional and object-oriented language features

Perl - $94,540

Perl is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 30 years of development.

Go - $92,760

Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.

OCaml - $91,026

OCaml is a general-purpose, industrial-strength programming language with an emphasis on expressiveness and safety.

Objective C - $90,000

Objective C is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that's a superset of C.

Flow - $88,934

FLOW is an educational programming language designed by Jef Raskin in 1970s.

Rust - $87,012

Rust is a modern computer programming language developed by Mozilla in 2010.

Swift - $86,897

Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

Groovy $86,271

Groovy is an object oriented language which is based on Java platform.

Bash/Shell - $85,672

Bash is a powerful programming language, one perfectly designed for use on the command line and in shell scripts.

Haskell - $85,672

Haskell is a purely Functional, non-strict Programming Language.

Apex - $81,552

Apex is an object-oriented programming language present on the Salesforce platform.

PowerShell - $81,311

Windows PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language designed especially for system administration.

SAS - $81,000

The SAS language is a computer programming language used for statistical analysis, created by Anthony James Barr at North Carolina State University.

Lua - $80,690

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.

Nim - $80,000

Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language.

Raku - $79,448

Raku is a high-level, general-purpose, gradually typed language.

Python - $78,331

Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics.

Kotlin - $78,207

Kotlin is a programming language that makes coding concise, cross-platform, and fun.

APL - $77,500

APL is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson.

Crystal - $77,104

Crystal is a programming language that can be easily understood by humans and compiles to fast programs.

TypeScript - $77,104

TypeScript is a strongly typed programming language that builds on JavaScript

Assembly - $77,010

An assembly language is a type of low-level programming language that is intended to communicate directly with a computer's hardware.

Fortran - $76,104

Fortran is a natively parallel programming language with intuitive array-like syntax to communicate data between CPUs.

Cobol - $76,000

COBOL is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use.

C# - $74,963

C# is an object-oriented, component-oriented programming language.

C++ - $74,963

C++ is a high-level, general-purpose programming language designed for system and application programming.

Julia - $74,963

Julia is a high-level, general-purpose dynamic programming language.

R - $74,963

R is a programming language created by statisticians for statistics, specifically for working with data.

SQL - $74,963

SQL is a programming language used to communicate with relational databases.

C - $74,351

C is a general-purpose computer programming language.

JavaScript - $74,034

JavaScript is a scripting language for creating dynamic web page content.

Java - $72,701

Java is a widely-used programming language for coding web applications.

Solidity - $72,656

Solidity is a statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on Ethereum.

Ada - $71,500

Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language.

HTML/CSS - $70,148

HTML (the Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are two of the core technologies for building Web pages.

Prolog - $70,000

Prolog is a logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.

Delphi - $69,608

Delphi uses a strongly typed high-level programming language, intended to be easy to use and originally based on the earlier Object Pascal language.

GDScript - $69,608

GDScript is an object-oriented and imperative programming language built for Godot.

VBA - $65,698

VBA is used to write programs for the Windows operating system and runs as an internal programming language in Microsoft Office.

Visual Basic (.Net) - $65,000

Visual Basic is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft.

MATLAB - $61,735

MATLAB is a high-performance language for technical computing.

PHP - $58,899

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development.

Dart - $55,862

Dart is a client-optimized language for fast apps on any platform.

Conclusion

Remember to check out the 2023 Developer Survey as knowledge is power, and being informed about the market can help you make informed decisions and pave the way for a successful and rewarding professional journey.

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