Python vs JavaScript for beginners in scripting?

Hi everyone,
I’ve been trying to decide which scripting language to focus on as a beginner, and I keep seeing Python and JavaScript mentioned a lot.
From your experience:
Which one is easier to start with?
Which one is more practical for real-world tasks?
I’m mainly interested in learning scripting for automation and general online use.
Would appreciate any insights or personal recommendations.
Thanks!

Go with Python as a beginner. It's way easier to pick up with simple, readable code, and it has killer libraries for automation tasks.

For real-world stuff like scripting bots or online automation, Python's more practical and versatile right out the gate. JS is great for web dev but steeper curve for newbies.

Python is easier to start and it is more practical for automation tasks like web scraping or file management and javascript is essential for interactive web features and building browser based tool.

Python for sure. Especially you're in the blackhat world

Python.

michael 112 said:

Hi everyone,
I’ve been trying to decide which scripting language to focus on as a beginner, and I keep seeing Python and JavaScript mentioned a lot.
From your experience:
Which one is easier to start with?
Which one is more practical for real-world tasks?
I’m mainly interested in learning scripting for automation and general online use.
Would appreciate any insights or personal recommendations.
Thanks!

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Both are good, but for a complete beginner, Python is usually easier to start with. The syntax is simple and you can quickly build scripts for automation, scraping, file handling, etc.
JavaScript is also powerful, especially if you’re interested in web-related stuff, but it can feel a bit confusing at the start compared to Python.
Since you mentioned automation and general online use, I’d recommend starting with Python. Once you’re comfortable, you can always pick up JavaScript later if needed.
In the end, both are valuable—it just depends on your main goal.

python for automation, js if you're doing anything browser-side or quick userscripts.

both are useful, just depends on what you're actually building.