"It would be like choosing to live in a particular town because it has a higher population than others. These statistics are interesting, but they don't help you pick the most appropriate language for your situation, project requirements or career objectives.

Forget choosing a language and start coding in something. It doesn't matter what you choose. Learn the basic concepts and the majority of other languages become just an alternative syntax."

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https://www.sitepoint.com/whats-best-programming-language-learn-2016/

I'd go with python for the Rpi stuff.

DONE 

Mackin!  Look at you learning a new skill! 

@ 73 It's important to keep my mind occupied and off pussy 

65 pages into a 411 pages Python PDF

>keep my mind occupied and off p###y

Doesn't work. Pretty soon, you start thinking "Man, this subroutine loop is *REALLY* going to impress the ladies!"

Python is a good one because it is easy to learn and there are lots of jobs for good python coders.  I got into Ruby for a while, but I ended up not liking the syntax very much.  Over the last year I've started pushing myself into PHP instead of Perl for my own stuff.

>into PHP instead of Perl

Now that's a statement I didn't think I'd ever hear you say/write.

You could blame Amazon, I had to choose from PHP, Java or C#. 

Mr. Mackin, how is your Python learning going?

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I've learnt a bit C over the past few years after mainly using PHP.

I'd choose Python if I had to learn a new one, apparently compiling C libraries into Python is easy.

For someone new to the game and wanting to choose a language, I'd say to them they can't go far wrong with JS... especially with nodeJS doing server side stuff nowadays.