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Best Programming Language for 2026

Resource Bunk on June 25, 2025

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Flemming N. Larsen • Edited

Why is Java missing, which is probably still #1 back-end language?
(I am quite sure it is)
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Sadiul Hakim

Yes, Java is one of the best options for backend development. But it might be an overkill for tiny applications.

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Flemming N. Larsen

Agree, but I don't think that is a critical criteria for being "Best Programming Language for 2026"

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hasan khan

No! because Java have there own speciality of programming such as andriod or web app or destop app with high amount of syntax's which in general novice have go through alot more trouble so they prefer with python!
and also look closely of this blog this was generated by some AI Tool might be chatGPT) with an open source advertisement!

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Akaki

Svelte and SolidJS?
From what I see, the popularity of front-end JavaScript frameworks generally looks like this:

React

Angular

Vue

I understand that Svelte and SolidJS are strong contenders, but they don’t seem to be on the mainstream horizon yet.

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Héctor Catalá

C# is really good for backend. Why is missing.

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Sadiul Hakim

Yeah .net is good

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Abbos Sidiqov

Yes, I agree with you. But it's not enough to compare with, Go for backend.

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Sadiul Hakim

I do not think go is still mature enough for enterprise backend.

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Lucas Lomeu

You should have considered Java

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Sadiul Hakim

Yes

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Nicola De Filippo

Maybe you didn't considered the game domain, in that c++ and c# don't have alternative (for now). For the embedded c and c++ are strong and will be strong for years still (my personal point of view).