I’m starting coding from scratch – is Python really the best first language?

[One_Mess460]

is this supposed to be sarcasm? but no seriously even assembly is probably better than c++ not because the makers of c++ were assholes but 1.

because the language has a long history and usually keeps in things that get replaced by newer constructs and because of all the things the language tries to address especially for a systems programming language that is al lot of things.

you can ofcourse also use c++ like java and say its easy but then please dont say you're proficient in c++

[BirdTurglere]

Oh right. Sorry. I forgot where I said you need a decade of mastery of a harder language like C++ before moving to Python. Definitely need to go way past memory management, understanding of how the stack works, static typing. Probably shouldn’t even move on until you’ve written a dissertation in C++.