The Programming Language You Shouldn’t Learn

Manpreet Singh
3 min readAug 5, 2022

Welcome back! Programming is an awesome skillset to have nowadays, so, let’s take a look at some programming languages that you shouldn’t learn!

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:

Perl

Next 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:

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