Post #46046

Python. It’s pretty easy to get going. the debugger is very good. Being able to put a breakpoint and interactively fuss with it is so much better than print statements and crying you can (and should) use type annotations, but they are optional it’s on most machines already, but you don’t want to fuck with the system install of it. On Linux and Mac you can use pyenv or similar if the system came with a version you can’t use. (Don’t teach anyone python 2.) the standard library is very good. You could also do JavaScript, as that’ll work on any modern browser. However, JavaScript is a deeply cursed language. It’s really bad at like every level. I don’t recommend it unless your top priority is “it is definitely available everywhere” and “these are future web developers”.