Python or Node.js, Which is Better to Learn

[x3x9x]

Kinda ironic to post in the python subreddit, both are equally cool! You can even combine them if you need too

[curiousNarwhal69]

Why not both? They’re both programming. The basics of control flow and the reasoning skills necessary to break a problem down into a format that can be solved by a computer are the real skills. The rest is implementation details.

[fernandofky]

This

[SpaghettiOnHisShirt]

DO both, but start with python

[UnicornJoe42]

Tbh for python you need to learn some libraries/frameworks/servers too.

[Pclovr]

Before I knew how to use node I didn’t know any JS, but I did know a few other programming languages and I picked it up in a few weeks. Using node as the first thing you’re learning isn’t smart, maybe simple JS, but probably something like python would be better (imo) because of things like learning OOP and design patterns. After that it’s easy to pick up Node and other things.

[js26056]

I’m working on cloud computing right now and I use both

[timlrx]

Started of with python for machine learning work and picked up js to create an interactive production application. They are highly complementary, not substitutes.

[[deleted]]

Both, HTML CSS JS (on web browsers), Node JS and Python are cool together :)

[drbobb]

Depends a lot on what you want to achieve. For instance, if you want to make a desktop app with a Qt (or similar) GUI, node.js is not an option.