The article analyzes the use of programming languages by industry. Their brief characteristics are given. Today, information technology is an integral part not only of any successful business, but also of our daily life. Informatization is the benefit, thanks to which over the past 30 years people have rapidly progressed in their development ahead of the level of knowledge of predecessors. It is difficult today to imagine our life without computers and computer programs. How these programs are written and in what programming language? The article analyzes the changes in the popularity of programming languages from 2002 to 2015.

The overall situation is reduced to the problem: what is more profitable to focus on for particular programmer - on current demand (and then it's Java, PHP, Objective-C, and mobile technology)? Or is it for the future, in an attempt to get into the "greatest demand phase" of tomorrow, in which case it is better to bet on Python, Ruby, Scala and cloud technologies. A more conservative option - stick to the classics, which has been and will be in demand for a long time - it's Java, Javascript and C #, C ++.