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What programming languages are most used in hacking?

among all these programming languages what are the most used ones and what these languages used for?
Python, most common smaller exploits are often written in Python
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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 ?
C#, I've seen some well designed program's used for this.
(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
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
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.
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
(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!
Anna Cred


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