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Question: What is the best programming language to learn for malware? - defnothacking - Aug 22, 2026
Hey all! I have recently started looking into getting into hacking and I was wondering…when it comes to malware what is the best programming language to write it in?
RE: Question: What is the best programming language to learn for malware? - WhiteCedron - Aug 22, 2026
It depends of your approach and what you want to hack...
If you want to learn web hacking, learning languages like javascript, C#, php and SQL is what you should go for...
If you want to learn systems hacking, C and C++ is the way to go, but they are quite hard to understand
Python is a good start as it is very versatile and quite easy to understand, the only problem is that it is very abstracted as a language and thus you might start coding stuff you don't really unerstand...
RE: Question: What is the best programming language to learn for malware? - Gummycombat - Aug 22, 2026
C# is what most of the popular RATs are written in
RE: Question: What is the best programming language to learn for malware? - Terry A. Davis - Aug 22, 2026
(Aug 22, 2026 04:58 PM)Gummycombat Wrote: C# is what most of the popular RATs are written in
Plus speed of development, and one of the easiest ones to learn.
OP, find something that you want to develop malware speaking, then evolve around that.