Which Programing Language is Easier to Learn (2019)

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

Which programing language is easier to learn

easy:

harder:

complex:

Which programing language has best doc?

Which programing language is more expressive but remain readable?

roughly in order:

  1. WolframLang
  2. PowerShell
  3. ruby
  4. scheme
  5. python
  6. perl
  7. php
  8. golang
  9. clojure
  10. JavaScript
  11. java
  12. emacs lisp

by the way, the only way to know and judge a programing language is to actually learn it and code it for 2 hours per day for say 6 months. Years of reading other people's blogs are useless.

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