7 New Fastest-Growing Programming Languages In 2020

6 min readMar 29, 2020

The Programming industry is growing at a very fast pace with the evolution of the industry, New Programming Languages are evolving too. Learning a new programming language has a price. It needs lots of your time, energy, and brain cycle. Still learning a new language can give you significant benefits directly or indirectly.

The more a language tutorial is searched, the more popular the language is assumed to be. Worldwide, According to PYPL Python is the most popular language, It grew the most in the last 5 years, so I’ve compared the Popularity of these fastest-growing New Programming languages with python.

I’ve prepared the list of fastest-Growing, New Programming Languages for developers that have made a lot of Buzz in recent years.

“The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.”
Dennis Ritchie

GO

Go is a statically typed, compiled, open-source programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. it is easy to build simple, clean, concise, reliable, and efficient software. It was Launched in 2009 as an open-source programming Language and version 1.0 was released in March 2012. Go is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and Easy Concurrency Support. The language is often referred to as “ Golang” because of its domain name, golang.org, but the proper name is Go.

Go has been at the top of our list for “Highest Salaries Worldwide” in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey with 80,000$
Alternatives for Golang are Python, Rust, Node.js, Java, JavaScript
Go is used by companies such as Uber, Twitch, Lyft, Shopify, Slack, Dropbox, Pinterest.

Dart

Dart is a client-optimized programming language for Mobile applications on multiple platforms. It is the Second language in our List which is developed by Google and is used to build mobile, desktop, server, and web applications. It was designed by Lars Bak and Kasper Lund, It first appeared in 2011 and the first stable release was released on March 23, 2020. Dart is an object-oriented, class-based, garbage-collected language with having syntax similar to C. It can compile to either native code or JavaScript. It supports interfaces, mixins, abstract classes, reified generics, and type inference.

According to GitHub Octoverse Dart is the fastest-growing New programming Language.
Alternatives for Dart language are Kotlin, TypeScript, PHP, JavaScript, Go.
Dart is used by companies such as Google, Mews, Blossom, AgFlow.

Rust

Rust was originally designed by Graydon Hoare at Mozilla, with contributions from Dave Herman, Brendan Eich, and others. the first stable release was released in 2015. It is a multi-paradigm programming language focused on performance, type safety, and interoperability. The designers refined the language while writing the Servo layout or browser engine, and the Rust compiler. Rust is syntactically similar to C++ but provides Guaranteed memory safety without using garbage collection. The compiler is free and open-source software dual-licensed under the MIT License and Apache License 2.0.

Rust has been the “Most loved programming language” in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey for four consecutive years since 2016.
Average Rust Developer salary world wide: 72,000$ per year
According to GitHub Octoverse, Rust is the second-fastest-growing language just behind Dart.
Alternatives for Rust language are C, Python, Swift.
Rust is used by companies such as Dropbox, Sentry, and Postmates.

TypeScript

TypeScript is an open-source programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. It is a strict syntactical Superset of JavaScript and adds optional static typing to the language.

TypeScript is designed for application-scale JavaScript development for both client-side and server-side execution (as with Node.js or Deno). As TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, existing JavaScript programs are also valid TypeScript programs.

TypeScript is the third “Most Loved Programming Language” in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019. and it’s Popularity is increasing Every year.
Average TypeScript Developer salary world wide: 60,000$ per year
Some alternatives to TypeScript are Dart, javascript, Elm.
TypeScript is used by companies such as Medium.com, Slack, Asana, Revolut.

Kotlin

Kotlin is a cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose programming language with type inference. It’s developed by JetBrains. The project started in 2010 and was open source from very early on. The first official 1.0 release was in February 2016. Kotlin is designed to interoperate fully with Java, and the JVM version of its standard library depends on the Java Class Library, but type inference allows its syntax to be more concise. Kotlin mainly targets the JVM but also compiles to JavaScript or native code (via LLVM).

On 7 May 2019, Google announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. Since the release of Android Studio 3.0 in October 2017, Kotlin has been included as an alternative to the standard Java compiler. The Android Kotlin compiler lets the user choose between targeting Java 6 or Java 8 compatible bytecode.

As per Stack Overflow, Kotlin is the fourth most loved Programming language in 2019
Average Kotlin Developer salary Worldwide: 57,000$ per year
Alternatives for Kotlin are Java, Swift, Scala
Kotlin is used by companies such as Tinder, Slack, N26.

Swift

Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple for iOS and it’s products. Swift is designed to work with Apple’s Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks and it works side-by-side with Objective-C code written for Apple products. It is built with the open-source LLVM compiler framework and has been included in Xcode since version 6, released in 2014. writing code in swift is very interactive, easy and the apps run lightning-fast.
Swift 1.1 was released on October 22, 2014, alongside the launch of Xcode 6.1. Swift 2.0 was announced at WWDC 2015 and was made available for publishing apps in the App Store on September 21, 2015.

It is the Most searched language in our list According to the google trends,
Google trends also show a sharp rise in the Popularity of Swift followed by a slight decrease in trending in the last couple of saturation.
Average Swift Developer salary Worldwide: 59,000$ per year
Alternatives for Swift are Objective-C, React_Native, Java.
Swift is used by companies such as Apple, Uber, Slack, Lyft

Elixir

Elixir is a functional, concurrent, general-purpose programming language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). Elixir builds on top of Erlang and shares the same abstractions for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications. Elixir was first introduced in 2012, It also provides productive tooling and extensible design. The latter is supported by compile-time metaprogramming with macros and polymorphism via protocols.it is also used for building embedded Systems and in web development

Average Elixer Developer salary Worldwide: 76,000$ per year
Alternatives for Swift are Ruby, Rust, Go
Elixir is used by companies such as Postmates, PagerDuty, Discord, Pinterest.

Originally published at https://limedroid.com on March 29, 2020.