What would you say is the most advantageous programming language to learn for the current era of computer science?

Question: What would you say is the most advantageous programming language to learn for the current era of computer science?
- Keywords:
  coding,
  language,
  programming
Asked by HarveyM on 9 Jul 2025.
- Marcus Davage answered on 9 Jul 2025:
  
  Horses for courses. Python was developed in 1991, R in 1993, Data Science started to become popular from 2012 onwards and uses both. COBOL was developed in 1959, and there is still 1 billion lines of it running today. (It’s also very easy to learn, and runs almost every financial transaction on the entire planet.) C and C++ are crucial for fast operating-system level programming (think real-time systems or gaming). In my opinion, start with Python, learn structured programming and object oriented programming, then include C++ to your personal armoury. I also program in Assembly Language. Now that’s a different story…

Question: What would you say is the most advantageous programming language to learn for the current era of computer science?