I've often wondered if I should shift my focus to Java, but I feel like Python is just an easier reentry for me into coding. Last time I coded was 25 years ago in college and it was C++ and COBOL.
I've often wondered if I should shift my focus to Java, but I feel like Python is just an easier reentry for me into coding. Last time I coded was 25 years ago in college and it was C++ and COBOL.
It's funny that you mention COBOL in your comment. It made the news for a few weeks in 2020h1 because many state-level Departments of Labor needed their COBOL systems updated to handle the influx of people put on unemployment due to the forced layoffs caused by state-level pandemic policies.
As much as we want to think that Python and pHp and Ruby on Rails and JavaScript are a must for programming systems in the 21st Century, the astounding quantities of COBOL systems used by governments and banks ensure that COBOL will be needed far into the future if for no other reason than program maintenance. Like World War 2 veterans, COBOL programmers are at fewer and fewer each day, and they will be paid a premium just to keep the systyems up and running.
Whatever species succeeds homo sapiens as travelers through space and time will discover that devices used for warp drive and stargate travel have some COBOL at their most fundamental level of functionality.
Unfortunately I was never that good at coding or debugging code, otherwise I might have taken that path. I remember it was one of the less annoying languages I had to learn.
It makes me cringe to hear you say Java to mean JavaScript :D
Python is great but even Hive uses CUSTOM JSON which is native javascript.
Wanna do anything on a website? Need Javascript.
I agree that Python is a better place to start but Javascript is also much more basic and easy to deal with compared to C++ or other similar languages. All scripting languages have increased simplicity. Javascript has a crazy amount of power behind it. At the same time if you learn Python a lot of that knowledge is going to translate to Javascript.
Ah yeah, sorry for that. Java is dead and should have died a lot sooner than it did. I'm so glad I don't have to deal with it anymore with my end users. I stopped supporting it as soon as they announced they were shutting it. If the resource couldn't shift to HTML5 then they needed to find something else.