Pros: popular and commonly used; good for data science Cons: roughly the same paradigm and Javascript. weak/dynamic/duck typed, interpreted, garbage-collected.

Pros: popular and commonly used; good for data science Cons: roughly the same paradigm and Javascript. weak/dynamic/duck typed, interpreted, garbage-collected. I'd recommend learning a language that departs from one or more of those. Maybe learn a statically-typed language, or a functional language. If you're up for a bit of a challenge, learn Rust. It's strongly typed, compiled, and definitely NOT garbage collected. It's possible to get a running program very quickly, but the learning curve steepens after that. If you do want to try Rust, here's some starting points - https://chrismorgan.info/blog/rust-fizzbuzz/ https://chrismorgan.info/blog/rust-fizzbuzz/ - https://stevedonovan.github.io/rust-gentle-intro/readme.html https://stevedonovan.github.io/rust-gentle-intro/readme.html - https://www.lurklurk.org/effective-rust/intro.html https://www.lurklurk.org/effective-rust/intro.html - https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust