No methodology, and the author skips right past C++, C, PHP, and PowerShell to push Go, Rust, and Kotlin - contrasted with the Stack Overflow 2023 Developer Survey

While I share the same bias against type unsafe languages, I’m suspicious that this articles order is simply the authors preference.

For anyone trying to navigate this, here’s a TL;DR:

1. Learn Python and JavaScript
2. You’ll probably hate C++ if you ever need to use it.
3. If you need something like C++, there’s a good chance you’ll still use C++, because everything else is still worse, for your use case, for at least another year. This is rapidly changing, and the source of a some discussion, here.
4. C still absolutely rocks, for system level code. For embedded stuff, I frequently fantasize about using GoLang instead of C, and then I actually write the solution in C, because C is still fantastic.

Edit: I didn’t address PHP or PowerShell.

Re: PHP - an estimated 97% of the Internet is currently served via PHP. Fans of PHP for new code are few, but the monumental amount of high quality here-to-stay code in PHP means it’s worth learning, if you’re inclined to and find the work.

Re: PowerShell - It’s massively better than Bash script, and VBScript. This is saying almost nothing. PowerShell is a fantastic shell environment. PowerShell is fantastic for quick scripts. Please don’t build huge enterprise solutions in PowerShell. I know some of you are going to anyway and we’re all going to regret it together. But at least we had this chat.