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Don’t learn these programming languages right now
Welcome back! Programming is one of my favorite things to do (not really, but just go along with it),so if you’re a new programmer, you maybe wondering about some programming languages to learn, so let’s talk about some programming languages you shouldn’t learn!
Perl
First up we have Perl, a general-purpose language that was fairly popular years ago, nowadays it’s definitely not as popular as before, check out the TIOBE index chart below:
I have seen that Perl is still used at some of the biggest companies out there, but if you plan on learning a single language, Perl may not be the best way to go since there’s less interest in this language than ever before. Like I mentioned, there are still positions/projects out there that are focused around this language, but if you’re a new coder, Perl is probably not the best one to start off with.
Objective-C
Next up we have Objective-C, this one may not come as a surprise to many of you, let’s take a look at how popular Objective-C used to be:
It used to be one of the most popular programming languages a few years ago, but now, not so much. One of the reasons for this is because Apple has pushed out their newer programing language Swift, this essentially will make Objective-C even more irrelevant. So, if you’re planning on learning Objective-C, I would probably recommend learning Swift instead:
Java
