The Coding Languages of the Salesforce Platform

When you start to learn Salesforce as a developer, you start to realize there are not just one but many languages that make up the Salesforce.com platform. As a developer you start with one, but end up learning multiple languages to support the actions that businesses require.

I personally started off with web development languages in my early years. HTML and CSS being the simpler ones, then Javascript, PHP, SQL and more dynamic languages as I went further.

With any web-based our cloud-based platform, don’t think you’re going to code with only one language, but each of the different languages will help to provide a well rounded online software platform, and Salesforce is no different. Some are easier to learn and some more complex, but all are easy to get started with and you learn what you need to know as you go.

As a Salesforce Developer, I primarily use the following languages:

APEX

This is obviously the primary coding language of salesforce development (Check out...

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