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One of the things that is weird to me is that Javascript is not necessarily the easiest language to learn. With the kind of odd function composition nature of J
by theaustinseven 10y ago
One of the things that is weird to me is that Javascript is not necessarily the easiest language to learn. With the kind of odd function composition nature of Javascript, I think that Ruby and Python(or maybe Lua) are the much easier languages to learn, and Javascript gets all of the love because it can do front-end development well. I honestly think unless anyone is going for strictly web-development, that they should start with something other than Javascript.
- yomly 10y agoAgreed, JS is more verbose than Ruby and Python and vanilla JS is a strange language for newcomers what with its prototypal object system and functional composition. It doesn't help that a lot of intro materials will try to shoehorn it into the traditional OO mold which it doesn't really fit well in. Something opinionated like Ruby (which strives to be expressive and terse) or Python (which is very standardised) is a better starting point for new developers.