Are you looking for the best application development language to use for your next mobile app development project? Learn about the 4 best application development languages in this post.

There are so many programming languages available but not all are suitable for developing an app. Before choosing the app development language, you must consider the platform(s) you want to develop for and what language will be preferable for your needs?   

So now let's look at the best app development languages

Often abbreviated as JS, is the most popular programming language, in fact, it is the programming language of the web. JavaScript is a prototype-based dynamic, single-threaded language that supports declarative, imperative and object-oriented styles. JavaScript is designed for building network-centric app and because it is integrated with HTML, it is very easy to implement.

Both Java and JavaScript are registered trademarks of Oracle but have different semantics, syntax and use. Java is a general-purpose programming language and what differentiates it from other technologies is that code written in Java can be run on any system that a Java virtual machine (JVM) can run on. It has more flexibility when treating code as agnostic to the system on which it runs.

Swift is a general - purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. and the open-source community. It is a programming language for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, macOS. 

Swift features includes: 

- Powerful and easy to use generics 

- Fast and concise iteration 

- First class functions and a light weight closure syntax. etc.

This is a cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose programming language with type interference and is designed to interoperate fully with Java. Also JVM version of Kotlin's standard library depends on the Java Class Library. Kotlin is a more concise Java language and it's builders can be type checked. Even though it is a full-fledged functional programming language, it preserves most of the object-oriented features of Java as an alternative programming style.