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New programmers who are looking for a https://thenewstack.io/what-should-be-a-students-first-programming-language/ and anyone wanting to add another language to their toolkit should start with Python. So says https://www.linkedin.com/in/philsquared/, one of the original authors of the C++ test framework and a developer advocate for https://www.sonarsource.com/.

Well, JavaScript is a good choice, but it was never really designed as a beginner-friendly language, Nash said.

“You can wrap it in a Python interface, and then it’s very easy to write Python code against that.

Most developers, if they’re going to learn another language, they should have Python in their toolkit.”