#But there is def more of a barrier to entry than with something like Javascript

[sylvanas-girlkisser]

What languages would you recommend for someone trying to get into programming? Like to learn

Really depends on a lot of factors, like whether you're looking for a job or just a hobby, want to work in the frontend (visuals and stuff) or backend (data, security, etc). but here's a few suggestions:

If you do any kind of IT degree chances are they'll either start you out with Javascript (used in making websites) or Python (potentially used for anything). As such there's a lot of tutorials and stuff out there to learn from.

However Javascript is kinda wonky, and nobody really uses it for anything anymore, and Python is kind of a baptism by fire imo - also in the real world its only really used for wizard shit like AI and robots.

Flutter is kind of the hip thing at the moment, it can be used for making apps, websites and computer programmes. It's also fairly easy to pick up and make something nice with, though you will occassionally run into some weird witchcraft errors where you just have to accept that things are a certain way to appease our dread lady Nyarlathotep the crawling chaos.

If you're feeling masochistic / want a skillset thats guaranteed to not go anywhere for the next 20 years you could also try to learn C# (pronounced "See-Sharp"). This is mostly intended for creating databases and shit which is honestly too abstract to be interesting to me, though its also the language used for making video games in Unity.

I'd also recommend reading up on the concept of "Computational Thinking" (basically learning to think like a computer). I find that a lot of people who struggle with learning to code do so because they don't understand the underlying concepts, e.g. that a computer can only ever do one thing at a time.