I wouldn't start with it. It has its charms, but they're mostly evident after you've been burned by the breakneck pace of change in other ecosystems. MJD's "Why

I wouldn't start with it. It has its charms, but they're mostly evident after you've been burned by the breakneck pace of change in other ecosystems. MJD's "Why I like Java" is probably the best article about it: http://blog.plover.com/prog/Java.html http://blog.plover.com/prog/Java.html I'm a little more affirmative of it than he is. But yeah, I definitely would not begin my journey with this. Start with Python. Javascript, maybe.