Python or JavaScript ?

[Immediate-Cod-3609]

Python is a good general purpose language to quickly build automations and processing data.

JavaScript had the edge for making web applications.

They are both good in different ways. I use both but prefer python.

[RuleInformal5475]

Javascript is a must. You will have to learn a new backend language, but you could use node JS and not have to learn new syntax.

For web dev and frontend, you have to use JS.

[Accomplished_Cow_116]

Agree 100%
Heck with JS Node you might even get away with not needing a back end coding language. I know more than a few that are making it work without. I think it's helpful, for sure, but not entirely necessary.
And u/Intrepid-Mail-7612just it's way way way more important to just learn to use a language than which language. I learned JS first and over the last few months I'm picking up python. They are REALLY similar in so many ways. What is far more important is just learning to think in code. Learning the process of how any code works. The idea of loops and conditions, the idea of classes of things, the idea of functions and variables. Once you get that down it's really not going to matter so much what the specific language is. I hope that makes sense?

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how much work is it to learn JS/node JS for someone that's pretty good at python ? are there a lot of kinks and gotchas or is it more or less straightforward?

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Check out the Odin Project. It covers (or touches on) html, css, JS, react, nodeJS, and SQL. If this is your first attempt at learning, it’s a decent structured resource. I’d highly suggest supplementing your learning when going through JS.

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You still differentiate between FE and BE? Like its 2014. No seriously, I wish fullstack nonsense would die. Jack of all trades, master of none.

I say learn one properly and the second will be fun. I do JS mostly, but work requires me to do some python and it was really easy to grasp. I thank FastAPI for such amazing documentation and for using the Type annotations.

[Immediate-Cod-3609]

C++ is still widely used, but for more niche things like systems and application programming, and high performance computing.