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The practical answer should be: Learn to program first, then start considering which languages.

You should learn PHP and JavaScript and HTML and CSS. The bulk of programming is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

JavaScript takes a lot criticism because of its odd object model(that odd object model is getting abstracted away in the latest versions of JavaScript BTW) but you can't deny that its support for higher order functions is great.

C & C++ are longer around? Are you mad? Even Pascal is still alive and well in Object Pascal/Delphi.

It has nothing to do with performance. It has everything to do with high level abstractions. Golang was designed to not include a whole host of high level abstractions so it would be easy to get started in... Look I'm not saying GoLang is a bad language because it isn't. GoLang is a small...

Yes! Its in big demand in the area it was designed for but if you step out that domain, you quickly are met with the language's short-comings.

Python is great as a second or third language. As a first language... It just produces too many bad habits if you have no coding experience.

I find dynamic languages are a terrible choice for a first language. They are way too accommodating and tend to produce bad coding habits. You should investigate C# or Java for a first language if you are serious about programming.

Golang was designed for a specific purpose and that design decision makes it unfit for most high level programming. Golang, like C, can do some things with relative ease but its better to reach for Java or C# if you step outside of its domain.

But any language can produce webassembly. It is just a matter of producing a compiler that takes X source code+libraries and produces the byte-code. I really don't see webassembly catching on with the masses. The masses are used to dealing with the current mess that's called web developement.

Both Golang and Rust have problems. Golang is simple to get up and coding in, but as you advance to more sophisticated problems you'll find the language falls short or has some esoteric workaround. Easy to start but hard to advance to sophisticated problems. Rust, on the other hand, is the...

You'll want to start here. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/expressjs/ And finish here. https://expressjs.com/en/api.html

I looked into Express.js and its very workable. Its easy to setup and has good documentation and you can whip-up a fairly complicated webserver in a matter of minutes. What's not to like? People have to understand that JavaScript isn't a great OOP language. You can do great things with its...

I wouldn't go by TIOBE rankings alone. They count many of the JavaScript derivatives and JavaScript as one language because their ranking of JavaScript was ranked too low. Could you imagine if they did that with Java? Could you imagine if they grouped Java and Scala and Closure and several other...

The only reason someone would learn C++ is to use its standard library. The C++ standard library is the only reason C++ is popular and used today.