New Programming Languages on the Market

These are some of the programming languages that made debut in 2014 barring GO.

HACK – Developed by Facebook.  FB is eventually planning to replace its PHP with Hack.  It supports both static and dynamic typing without making any compromise on the performance. Critics are saying it already go the endorsement that it is being used by FB at the same time it looks like a upgrade of PHP.

Swift – Developed by Apple. It is for developing the applications for iPhone, iPad and Mac.  It is expected to gain traction due to large market (App Store) and ease to use it compare to objective-C.  and it got 16th spot in the Tiobe programming trend index.  Its main feature is playground, which has two windows. Code will be displayed on a window and Application will be running on other window.  Make the changes in the code window it will be automatically reflected in the application window without compiling it. This feature is inspired from a language called Ligth-Box, creator of Swift claiming that this feature will reduce the learn curve drastically.

GO – Developed by Google.