Svetlin Nakov

SoftUni
http://www.nakov.com/

Svetlin Nakov (http://nakov.com) Svetlin Nakov has 20+ years of technical background as software engineer, project manager, consultant, trainer, and digital entrepreneur with rich technical experience (blockchain, Web development, information systems, databases, cryptography, C#, Java, JS, PHP, Python). Svetlin Nakov is a regular speaker at hundreds of conferences, seminars, courses and other trainings and holds a PhD degree in computer science. He is author of 15 books about computer programming and software technologies, lives in Sofia, Bulgaria and works as an passionate trainer and inspirer at SoftUni.

Programming Languages in 2021 – Trends and Opportunities

Day 1 -- Dec 21st 15:00-16:30 CodeMonsters Stage Novice
  • Which are the most future proof languages for 2021?
  • Review of most popular languages in 2020:
    • Most used languages: Python, JavaScript, Java, C#
    • Less often used languages: C++, PHP, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin, Scala, Ruby, Visual Basic
    • Specialized languages: Rust, Go, R, C, Objective-C, Dart, Perl
    • Outside the standings (because they’re not programming languages): SQL, HTML, CSS, XML, JSON
  • Language popularity indexes:
    • Most sought after languages according to LinkedIn Jobs Worldwide?
    • Languages with the most code written in GitHub?
    • PYPL: language popularity based on Google Trends
    • TIOBE: language popularity according to global search enginges
    • Most discussed languages in StackOverflow?
    • Why all these popularity indexes are unreal and skewed?
  • For beginners: which language should I start with?
    • Why the actual language doesn’t matter much?
    • Which languages are most sough after in Bulgaria (according to LinkedIn Jobs Bulgaria)?
  • Summary: which languages to learn during 2021 and why?