While I don't think it's really a harsh criticism to say that Go shouldn't be your first language... I'd be interested to know what you think a good first langu

While I don't think it's really a harsh criticism to say that Go shouldn't be your first language... I'd be interested to know what you think a good first language would be. Certainly not C or C++, if you're discounting Go. I'd also discount Java and C#, since they're syntactically quite similar to Go. Certainly not erlang. So... python? ruby? While I like those languages, I feel that the lack of a compiler is a pretty big hindrance to new programmers. Statically typed languages can catch many errors that produce some truly strange error messages in dynamic languages.