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Which language will allow a beginner to get up to speed quicker?
Basically which language of the two is easier to learn
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From the perspective of getting started, it is much easier to learn Python than to learn JavaScript. In fact, one of the main design objectives of the Python programming language is being easy to understand and implement.
Is python or javascript easier? JavaScript is a great, easy, and fast to learn programming language. Python syntax is a delight and is often the ideal beginners-choice for those with no prior programming experience. No programming language is perfect, but JavaScript is more difficult to master than Python.
Yes, JavaScript is worth learning in 2022. It ranks as the most widely used programming language and it has held this position for nine years in a row. JavaScript is the only programming language native to web browsers. Therefore, as long as the Internet is around, it will always be relevant.
Yes, since js syntax is a bit familiar with python. If you want to do frontend with js, backend with python then learning both of them is okay. Btw, if you really want js, learn nodejs so that you can do both backend and frontend with it. If you want more backend power, you should learn python first.
Python is more regular, and has not needed to keep supporting every old, redundant feature forever, as Javascript has been forced to do (in order to keep supporting existing sites): these are issues that can make Python easier to learn.
However, Javascript's not too bad, especially if you can choose a reasonably rigid, modular, clean framework such as dojo (if you have to learn about every popular JS framework, or even most of them, it will, however, be a nightmare -- as it will if you have to learn the subtle bugs and incompatibilities of various browsers' implementations of JS and the DOM, rather than getting them covered up by such frameworks as dojo, jquery, or closure).
For learning Javascript, I recommend supplementing whatever tutorial you choose with Crockford's Javascript: the good parts -- it's a very thin book (which sounds like a joke, but it's true!-), fast and easy to read, and stops you from wasting your time on language features that are misconceived, too badly designed to use, or counterproductive. Crockford is a real JS guru and is well worth reading and paying attention to.
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