Opinions will be all over the place, and it will depend on your areas of interest, your priorities as a developer, whether you’re willing to climb a steep learning curve before you can do anything useful, etc. If you are just getting started, the usual answer until recently has been start with Python and branch out from there. Your own preferences will make themselves known to you after a while.
Agreed, this question will never have a straight answer. I’d add that if your interest is web development, a good first language would be JavaScript. Python is great too.
Let me adjust a little bit: front end web dev is a quagmire. If you want to get involved with web dev, start on the back end. If you move to the front end later, it will be with more systems understanding which will be useful.
I’ll say something even more extreme: before getting involved with web front ends, work on some video games with game devs. The know how to make interfaces responsive, unlike most of the slow crap you see on the web. If you can make front ends that are capable and fast, you will be a god among devs.
What web games are you playing? Do you count the time it takes to load the web page? I can’t think of a single game that loads so fast, web or otherwise. agar.io is super slow and bloated, hanab.cards takes about half a second to make a room, candybox2.github.io comes close but the network tab reports 128 ms to download the javascript.
Opinions will be all over the place, and it will depend on your areas of interest, your priorities as a developer, whether you’re willing to climb a steep learning curve before you can do anything useful, etc. If you are just getting started, the usual answer until recently has been start with Python and branch out from there. Your own preferences will make themselves known to you after a while.
Agreed, this question will never have a straight answer. I’d add that if your interest is web development, a good first language would be JavaScript. Python is great too.
Web development is such a horrible quagmire these days that imho it’s best to start in another area.
Let me adjust a little bit: front end web dev is a quagmire. If you want to get involved with web dev, start on the back end. If you move to the front end later, it will be with more systems understanding which will be useful.
I’ll say something even more extreme: before getting involved with web front ends, work on some video games with game devs. The know how to make interfaces responsive, unlike most of the slow crap you see on the web. If you can make front ends that are capable and fast, you will be a god among devs.
When’s the last time you saw a video game that launches in under 100 milliseconds? I bet it was a game written for the web.
At it’s best, the web is very fast.
What web games are you playing? Do you count the time it takes to load the web page? I can’t think of a single game that loads so fast, web or otherwise. agar.io is super slow and bloated, hanab.cards takes about half a second to make a room, candybox2.github.io comes close but the network tab reports 128 ms to download the javascript.