Coding is an indivisible part of hacking — and yet most people ignore it. Tools are everywhere, but the tools you use are made of code. If you skip that, you're only scratching the surface.
Welcome. In this post I'll show why coding matters for hacking and which languages matter most. No long theory — straight facts.
1) Why you need to know coding
Everyone asks: Why learn code for hacking? Ask yourself these simple questions:
- What do you hack ethically?
- What are those targets made of?
- What are you going to find?
- What is a "bug"?
If your answers are "website, app, OS," then know this: those things are made of code. If you don't understand the code, how will you find flaws in it? Tools can automate checks, but tools don't teach you why something is vulnerable. They give results — you need to interpret them. Without coding, you're a script kiddie running canned scans. Real hacking is reading, reasoning, and exploiting logic — and that's done in code.
2) Which coding language to learn
I won't tell you one single language to learn. Instead: choose by purpose.
- Web / bug bounty → JavaScript (client-side), Python (automation), basic SQL.
- App / backend → Python, Ruby, PHP, Java.
- Low-level / exploit dev → C and C++.
- Scripting / automation → Bash, Python.
- Modern tooling / performance → Go, Rust (nice for tooling and safer memory handling).
Do research for your path, but at a minimum learn one scripting language (Python) and one systems language (C/C++ or Rust). That combo will teach you automation and how software actually runs.
That's it for this post. If you want to learn practical hacking and bug bounty stuff — follow me. Stay curious. Stay ethical. Stay hacking.