Lots of recent graduates who have "hello world" programming experience know Java. If you want to hire those. It's sort of portable and it's sort of good at a w

Lots of recent graduates who have "hello world" programming experience know Java. If you want to hire those. It's sort of portable and it's sort of good at a wide range of stuff. In general, I would worry about what you're doing long before what language you're doing it in. Language is rarely a critical detail, despite the frequency at which people like to have holy wars over it.