I was ready to downvote blogspam but that was actually pretty good. Great infographic too. I'm tempted to say it should even go in the sidebar. There are always people asking, "what language should I learn" and this would be a nice way to answer all of those.
More "python is best and easiest" garbage. Honestly, Python sucks.
The syntax is awkward an unpleasant and relatively speaking, it is quite slow. Coming from a background of C, Python is anything but easy to learn. I don't really know how it would be for a new programmer but I wouldn't say 1/5 difficulty sounds right
While this may be useful to some people, half the chart basically points you to Python unless you've got some special case. This is a very biased perspective. There is a reason why there are so many programming languages out there, why there are so many non-Python languages out there, and why so many have survived for decades.
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7 u/ForgotMyName 04 Feb 2016 17:41
I was ready to downvote blogspam but that was actually pretty good. Great infographic too. I'm tempted to say it should even go in the sidebar. There are always people asking, "what language should I learn" and this would be a nice way to answer all of those.
4 u/J_Darnley 04 Feb 2016 19:06
Downvote! Stupid spinner thing doesn't need to be there. Page loads fine if you delete that overlay.
0 u/T1M 05 Feb 2016 05:57
with noscript (or something else i'm running) it doesn't go away ever. delete the overlay and everything's fine.
2 u/weezkitty 05 Feb 2016 00:37
More "python is best and easiest" garbage. Honestly, Python sucks. The syntax is awkward an unpleasant and relatively speaking, it is quite slow. Coming from a background of C, Python is anything but easy to learn. I don't really know how it would be for a new programmer but I wouldn't say 1/5 difficulty sounds right
1 u/tribblepuncher 05 Feb 2016 02:58
While this may be useful to some people, half the chart basically points you to Python unless you've got some special case. This is a very biased perspective. There is a reason why there are so many programming languages out there, why there are so many non-Python languages out there, and why so many have survived for decades.
1 u/Master_Admin 05 Feb 2016 05:38
This stupid flowchart doesn't even have fortran or assembly on it.
0 u/grisanik 05 Feb 2016 21:10
It all depends what would you like to do Web, Desktop, Mobile ... for the Web I recently saw this Mind map guide: https://coggle.it/diagram/52e97f8c5a143de239005d1b/56212c4e4c505e0045c0d3bda59b77e5977c2c9bd40f3fd0b451bdcf8da4aa52
0 u/Tecktonik 06 Feb 2016 18:25
These are all largely procedural programming languages.