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What programming languages are most used in hacking? - moaazrashed - Jun 10, 2025
among all these programming languages what are the most used ones and what these languages used for?
RE: What programming languages are most used in hacking? - skull - Jun 10, 2025
Python, most common smaller exploits are often written in Python
RE: What programming languages are most used in hacking? - Bastille - Jun 11, 2025
Depends on what you want to do.
People often start with Python as it's more beginner-friendly and as there are a lot of resources online.
But, what are your objectives ? What do you want to do ? Crack software ? Create malware ? Hack websites ? Create exploits ?
RE: What programming languages are most used in hacking? - RedeemTheBad - Jun 11, 2025
C#, I've seen some well designed program's used for this.
RE: What programming languages are most used in hacking? - ayousky99 - Jun 11, 2025
(Jun 10, 2025 07:41 PM)moaazrashed Wrote: among all these programming languages what are the most used ones and what these languages used for?
python
RE: What programming languages are most used in hacking? - exist_tmp - Jun 11, 2025
There is a good python 100 day course through Udemy (warez disallowed) that frequently goes down to $20 which I am finding helpful. Sorry I’m too noob to post link
RE: What programming languages are most used in hacking? - dotman094 - Sep 30, 2025
Python is the Swiss-army knife: every major tool (Scapy, Impacket, pwntools, sqlmap) is written in it and the syntax is beginner-friendly.
Bash is next—you’ll live in the terminal, so scripting quick loops/grep chains is daily life.
Then pick one low-level language: C for buffer-overflow work or Go for fast concurrency-heavy scanners.
JavaScript matters too once you hit web apps (XSS, CSRF, prototype pollution).
Everything else (Ruby, Perl, PowerShell) is situational—learn the four above and you can read/extend 90 % of public exploits.
RE: What programming languages are most used in hacking? - Hackers - Sep 30, 2025
Low level is the best for red teams, but Python is very common for certain tools.
I personally prefer C, C++ but others can be great. Golang has some interesting projects too. I've been a huge fan of Go recently, but just in general, not for hacking. I don't hack people
Depends on what you're trying to do honestly. I wouldn't use C/C++ or low level for certain tasks
RE: What programming languages are most used in hacking? - AnnaCred - Jan 30, 2026
(Sep 30, 2025 06:44 PM)dotman094 Wrote: Python is the Swiss-army knife: every major tool (Scapy, Impacket, pwntools, sqlmap) is written in it and the syntax is beginner-friendly.
Bash is next—you’ll live in the terminal, so scripting quick loops/grep chains is daily life.
Then pick one low-level language: C for buffer-overflow work or Go for fast concurrency-heavy scanners.
JavaScript matters too once you hit web apps (XSS, CSRF, prototype pollution).
Everything else (Ruby, Perl, PowerShell) is situational—learn the four above and you can read/extend 90 % of public exploits.
This is useful. Thank you!