Google Go, TypeScript, Swift, F# and Rust are the most wanted newer languages, according to Stack Overflow survey

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Google Go, TypeScript, Swift, F# and Rust among the most wanted new languages, according to Strack Overflow survey
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Google Go, TypeScript, Swift, F# and Rust among the most wanted new languages, according to Strack Overflow survey

But JavaScript still rules the roost among developers

If you're looking for a job in software development you could do worse than learning JavaScript. According to the Stack Overflow Developer Hiring Landscape Survey 2017, carried out among the site's users,...

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