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C without Classes to C with Classes made it easy for me to understand other programming languages… so in a nutshell once you understand the concept it gets easier learning a language of interest
My first langage was java
From personal experience I would highly recommend Java.
Probably 1. Python with simpler syntax or C-like dynamic (to avoid C-complexities) while easy to write and run. 2. Then C to start introducing compilation, hardware resources and how a machine works, a bit stricter formatting, and typing introduction. 3. Then Python with Classes to start learning OOP, then C++ to notice the complexities and differentiate low/high-level languages and dynamic and other memory management differences. 4. Optionally, JavaScript over a Browser compared to JavaScript over Node.JS to understand how high-level runs depending on engines 5. The above allows us to understand how Java works (another engine), where a simple hello world is enough, because Java its pretty old stuff the syntaxis and naming is a pain to learn etc. I agree with the "too many", we should get rid of Java, C, etc.. Maybe maintain 2 high level options (Ex: Python + Javascript) and 2 low level (Ex: C++/Rust + Go) trying to focus on asynchronous logic to be IO-efficient as a de facto standard for writing code even at a simple hello world