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I think in reality the highest paid languages are C, Objective-C and C++, with Java a close second (though it very much depends on what is being done).

And if you're looking to be at the top of your game, one single piece of advice: master C. Once you've mastered it, you can pick and choose whatever else you want.

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I second this. Have a mate of mine that has five years in C and has been able to walk into any shop that he wants, regardless of language they use, and get a gig, and well paying to boot.

On the other end of the scale, I have almost six years in PHP and it's worth as much as a broken kinder egg for anything outside the LAMP stack world (and in some cases, within that world as well)

I've noticed less interesting gigs and lower pay as well for PHP over the last year or so. Spending a lot of time with Python and Go now.

I'm learning C at the moment, but it isn't mentioned much in these comments. It seems to be niche expertise to me these days.

Probably because most people commenting here don't know it. ;)

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