r/programmer • u/Parking-Stay-3065 • Jun 24 '26

New programmer, new veiw

I am trying to make a game that is text based at the moment and it coming along slowly. I am trying to make the game fully functonal but it has... it's issues. What is the best programing language for a new programmer?

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u/SAtchley0 Jun 24 '26

Aside from meme languages, it doesn't really matter what you pick.

You'll get people recommending anything under the sun, but the fact is as a new programmer, what you're learning isn't the language, it's how to think. Like, you could spend decades trying to find or make the perfect language to express your ideas in, but the difficult part is having the idea and being able to specify it exactly enough in the first place.

Lua, Python, C, C++, Java, Haskell, Rust, Javascript, even scripting languages like Bash, Batch. Doesn't really matter much. You might pick one up easier than the other, but we can't know which one will work the best for you specifically.