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Rank 01
Python
Guido van Rossum · first appeared 1991
The default teaching language and the default data science language at once, a rare combination that keeps the hiring pool deep at every experience level. Performance is the honest tradeoff, patched over by C-extension libraries rather than solved.
97.5/100 Top 49 scoreRank 02
TypeScript
Microsoft · first appeared 2012
Optional static typing gradually made "it compiled, so it probably works" a reasonable thing to say about a JavaScript codebase, the single biggest reason large frontend teams standardised on it.
95.4/100 Top 49 scoreRank 03
JavaScript
Brendan Eich · first appeared 1995
Still the only language that runs natively in every browser on Earth, a monopoly no competitor has meaningfully challenged in three decades despite genuine attempts.
94.1/100 Top 49 score
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