which programming language(s) has the most job prospects?

[Autistic Spectrum]

and never listen to cameron unless you want to learn how to pull a dent out on your honda accord,

[timmy]

check your privilege

[jon]

java is the only language that has room to grow

e.g. while C is not popular, this is not because it is a bad language, it is because the design of other languages better suits more applications than the kinds that C is suitable for

in other words, C has the greatest coverage in its market, perhaps 99% of market share. there are a number of places where truly ancient code has not been updated to C yet, and there are a number of places where libc has not been fully implemented yet. platform support is either lacking, or provides its own incompatible runtime, built in the assembly language for the host architecture

but in markets where java could have been used, java is not an undisputed king, because programmers are free to "play favorites" and do things with, in order of popularity, another language: PHP, python, C#, C

even so, overall, java is twice as popular as PHP, PHP is twice as popular as python, python is twice as popular as C#

[jon]

C# is java-like, and not all that bad, but being tethered to microsoft's .net framework it is destined for obsolescence

java can and will innovate wider and better and do it without losing cross-platform support, it is already stable on every major architecture that we will ever build personal computing devices with

JDK 8 will be bringing in all the features that C# now has, and they are so esoteric (e.g. true lambda functions and closures) that nobody even cares that C# had them first