Fast-growing Zig tops Stack Overflow survey for highest-paid programming language
Zig has topped an annual Stack Overflow survey in the category of highest-paid programming technology, making the relative newcomer to the scene a solid investment for developers who are looking for gainful employment in application development.
Developers programming in Zig—an all-purpose language that offers an alternative to C—earned upwards of $103,611 in 2023, according to the Stack Overflow 2023 Developer Survey. The language, an active project started by Andrew Kelley in 2015, knocked last year’s top earner Clojure ($96,381) down to No. 5 in the category. Stack Overflow polled more than 90,000 developers for the survey, which has been published now for 13 years.