These are the most popular video game programming languages
Welcome back! Programming is a massive piece to developing video games, so let’s talk about some of the most popular programming languages used for game development.
C++
Starting off we have C++, this is a very popular object oriented language used at a ton of different companies. To be honest, in almost all of the game developer positions I searched up on Indeed, they all required C++, here are a few of them:
There are tons of frameworks available for C++, including the Unreal Engine. This is an engine created by Epic Games, the same developers that made Fortnite, this gives us access to their full API using C++:
If you want to learn more about Unreal Engine, check out their website here:
Why should someone use C++? It is pretty much an industry standard to develop multi platform games used by many different companies.
Java
Next up we have Java, one of the most popular programming languages in the world. Java is a flexible programming language that allows us to develop applications, software and games as well. Java is supported with the libGDX framework, this is a free open-source game development framework for this language:
If you want to learn more about libGDX check out their website down below: