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Discussion on: What language would you recommend for a beginner?

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Adrien Gallouët

Go without hesitation. It's incredibly readable and very simple. There is a lot of good libraries and good documentations. The "almost one way to do one thing" is also very important for beginners. It's not a belief, I saw it around me. 5 years ago I would have recommended python.

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stereobooster

Go is a kind of modern Pascal (which is beginner-friendly). Package manager situation for Go is sad though