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JavaScript. Stay mad but it's fun to write, easy to get into, easy to do both visual (e.g. web) and CLI-style code, and it's awarded me a cushy life, house, and car.
I've been around - did COBOL at uni. DOne a lot of commercial work in Delphi and C++. I loved the few months of Swift I tried, but started on webdev 6 months ago. I felt really unsafe in JS, and was looking forward to moving onto Typescript. But, as time's gone on, I've found JS just seems to work how I think it's going to. I haven't run into problems with types at all. I assumed I'd end up on a complied language for server side, but the Node ecosystem's so mature it's just been efficient to stay in JS land.
If I was going to teach kids to code, this is where I'd start. Low friction to get going, and powerful enough to run most of the world. Bountiful resources to learn and get support.
I actually like JS too. It is second to python in ease, but way better in terms of tooling and eco system.
The JavaScript eco system has some issues due to legacy baggage of browsers and design issues with node, but beyond that, the tooling is amazing and powerful.
The rest sounds like cope but this I can get behind.
I can't use regular js anymore after getting used to typescript. I just get annoyed at myself
Yeah I should have been more specific in that I also use TS.
Good news, I'm not sure when you'd ever have to. TS literally compiles to JS