> and how you would deploy it in production environment We're talking about learning a new language, not deploying to production. > By this logic, we should

> and how you would deploy it in production environment We're talking about learning a new language, not deploying to production. > By this logic, we should be using IE on Windows. No, that's not what anybody said. This is about learning languages, not even using them. Using a language is different from learning a language in so many ways they aren't even comparable. Millions of people could be learning a language for millions of reasons. Simple portability is useful - knowing a language that is preinstalled on a huge portion of computers worldwide has massive advantages for a huge number of people who are learning new languages today. Dismissing the values that others might place in how they learn a language is being close-minded. There are lots of reasons to learn to program, and learning based on the language available to you first and most readily is certainly a reasonable approach.