According to the survey, Clojure, TypeScript, Elixir and Julia took the next four spots, respectively, in the top five most loved programming languages amongst developers. Despite how popular Apple’s devices are, the company’s Swift programming languages was the eighth most popular language amongst developers.

Rust, though, is not only a favourite amongst developers. A July 2021 whitepaper from BlackBerry noted that cybercriminals and malware makers are also adopting the language to build trojans that can be used for infiltrating devices. “Malware authors are known for their ability to adapt and modify their skills and behaviors to take advantage of newer technologies,” said Eric Milam, vice president of Threat Research at BlackBerry. He added:

“This has multiple benefits from the development cycle and inherent lack of coverage from protective products. This paper looks into less prolific programming languages and their use in the malware space. It is critical that industry and customers understand and keep tabs on these trends, as they are only going to increase.”

Further, despite efforts by companies like Google and Apple to put an end to JavaScripts, the language remains the most common amongst scripting languages. These are often used to track users’ activity online and to make web pages interactive. HTML/CSS and Python were also preferred by developers.

Amongst frameworks and libraries – code written by others that can be used to solve common problems – Google’s TensorFlow was amongst the top five while Microsoft’s .NET was the most loved framework. The company’s Windows was also a favourite operating system amongst developers, while Linux-based operating systems came in second. Apple’s MacOS was the third most preferred operating system for developers.

“Hello World !” is considered to be one of the simplest pieces of programs possible in almost all computer languages, that outputs or displays “Hello, World !” to the user. It often exemplifies the basic syntax of a programming language for a working program and used to introduce beginning programmers to a programming language.

Hello World C:

C is a high-level and general-purpose programming language that is ideal for developing firmware or portable applications. Originally intended for writing system software, C was developed at Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie for the Unix Operating System in the early 1970s.

Hello World COBOL:

COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) was the first widely-used high-level programming language for business applications. It is the second-oldest high-level programming language after FORTRAN.

Hello World Go:

Go or Golang is a free and open-source programming language created at Google. It is a compiled, statically typed language in the tradition of Algol and C, with garbage collection, limited structural typing, memory safety features and CSP-style concurrent programming features added.

Hello World C++:

C++ is a general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. It is considered to be an intermediate-level language, as it encapsulates both high and low-level language features.

Hello World Java:

Java is a general-purpose computer programming language first developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, which is now a part of Oracle Corporation. The language has developed much of its syntax from C and C++.

Hello World JavaScript:

JavaScript is a scripting language that is used mainly inside web browsers. Java and JavaScript are not the same things; in fact, they are not even related.

Hello World Pascal:

Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language, which Niklaus Wirth designed in 1968–69 and published in 1970, as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

Hello World PHP:

PHP is a server-side scripting language designed primarily for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language. Originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994.

Hello World Python:

Python is an open-source programming language made to both look good and be easy to read. A programmer named Guido van Rossum made it in 1991. Python is a good programming language for beginners. Writing programs in Python takes less time than in another language.

Hello World Ruby:

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto in Japan. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including functional, object-oriented, and imperative.

Hello World SQL:

SQL or Structured Query Language is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS).

Hello World Scala:

Scala is a general-purpose programming language. Scala has full support for functional programming and a strong static type system. Designed to be concise, many of Scala’s design decisions were inspired by criticism of Java’s shortcomings.

Hello World Swift:

Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and Linux.

Hello World Kotlin:

Kotlin is a statically-typed programming language that runs on the Java virtual machine for modern multi-platform applications. A team of JetBrains programmers based in Saint Petersburg, Russia is its primary developer.

Hello World R:

R is a programming language and free software environment, designed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, for statistical computing and graphics that is supported by the R Foundation. One of R’s strengths is the ease with which publication-quality plots can be produced, including mathematical symbols and formulas if needed.

Hello World Delphi:

Delphi is both an object-oriented programming language and an Integrated Development Environment created by Embarcadero. It originated from the Pascal language, which then became Object Pascal. Delphi is an alternative to languages such as Visual Basic offering development with both rapidity and good quality.

Hello World Matlab:

MATLAB is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment developed by MathWorks. MATLAB   allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages.

Hello World Visual Basic .NET:

Visual Basic .NET is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language, implemented on the .NET Framework. Microsoft launched VB.NET in 2002 as the successor to its original Visual Basic language.

Hello World Perl 6:

Perl 6 is a member of the Perl family of programming languages designed by Larry Wall. It was designed in order to tackle the caveats that Perl had accumulated during its now long history. Those caveats were mainly due to a requirement of backward compatibility of successive versions of Perl.

Hello World JQuery:

jQuery is a JavaScript library. It was created to make it easier and simpler to write JavaScript and HTML. JQuery works on most web browsers. It was invented by John Resig.