Bitcoin Forum

Interested in cryptocurrency industry and want to do some development work later on.
Anyone has recommendation on the best programing language to learn and the reason?

Needs more info, what concrete (service, coin feature, tool, ...) you wanna do/develope.

The reference client is written in C++, but it can be reimplemented in pretty much any language(although the reference client developers don't recommend it because you need to be fairly intimate with the protocol).

As Bitcoin is a protocol, it's entirely up to you which language you choose in order to interact with the protocol and build your app.

There are several pre-built libraries around, such as bitcoinj in Java (https://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/ (https://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/)), Insight (https://github.com/bitpay/insight (https://github.com/bitpay/insight)) which uses node.js, and many more.  It all depends on where your comfort level is and what you want to build.

Thank you all for the reply! I'm new on this. Just have interest to work on it later on. Don't know what to do yet. Thinking to learn a relatively widely used (or having such potential) language. Newbie on programming too.

Learn Python or Ruby, then learn either C++ or Java. Python and Ruby is really easy to learn. You should be able to learn it in one week.

I think, you can get started with any language as far as you understand the working and protocols of Crypto currency...I dont know whether you are just talking about bitcoin..because there are several in market..I think you cant avoid Lite and feather coin existence.

I would use java, but it depend on what you want to programing.

C# http://blockchainprogramming.azurewebsites.net/ (http://blockchainprogramming.azurewebsites.net/)

The reasons are enumerated in the book.

I started with PHP w/ RPC and I'm having fun  :D

I've just discovered this book , great for people who use C# and explain well everything you need with a good way.

As others have said, need more information about what your goals are... Becoming a bitcoin core developer? Developing desktop or mobile applications? Web services? There are so many ways that you could approach Bitcoin, without more information, it's impossible to give you a decent answer...