The worst programming languages to learn in 2021

Welcome back! Programming is one of my favorite things to write about, but sometimes it can be a hassle to figure out which language you want to learn first, well let me break down the languages that you should probably avoid learning first in 2021. Now, the reason these maybe the worse is due to a couple of factors: job market, popularity and community, let’s get started!

Objective-C

Starting off we have Objective-C, this language is used for a bunch of different things but mostly for iOS / MacOS development, so why is this a bad language to learn now? Well, we now have Swift, this is essentially the newer version of Objective-C, Swift has a much larger community and is being updated by Apple constantly. Although Objective-C is still around and used by many companies, it’s losing steam every year, it was one of the most popular language from 2011 & 2012 but since Swift came out it’s definitely lost interest:

Ultimately learning a language like Swift maybe a better language to pickup than Objective-C.

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:

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 theres less interest in this language than ever before.

PHP

Next up we have PHP, this is still a fairly popular general-purpose language mostly used for web development. It may not seem like this language is losing popularity, but if you take a look at the TIOBE index chart from their website it does show a massive decrease in popularity for this language: