Web Development 101: Top Web Development Languages in 2014 — from odesk.com by Yoshitaka Shiotsu

Excerpt:

When it comes to choosing the best web development language for your website, it’s important to remember that there is no single best language.

Instead, a web developer will choose the option that best suits your project, based on the specific functionality or features you want. Which programming languages are most likely to come up in conversation?

An earlier post in this series, “What is Web Development,” described the three parts of web development: client-side scripting, which is a program that runs in a user’s web browser; server-side scripting, which runs on the web server; and database technology, which manages all the information on the server that supports a website.

While there are a couple of basic languages in common use, other languages are used specifically for client-side scripting or server-side scripting.  Here is an overview of the more popular web development languages in use by the industry today.

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This is only a fraction of the web development languages used by the industry today, but they are the ones you are most likely to discuss with a web developer.

Addendum on 3/21/14: