As a complete beginner...why Raku over Python and some others?

• rust

  2,683 93,041 10.0 Rust

  Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  

You're going to write code in more than one language. That's almost a given anyways. But if you've really put this much time into evaluating a best first language? I can say from personal experience you're going to spend the rest of your life going "oh but what if I tried this in V or Io or Rust or Smalltalk or…"

• Django

  484 76,886 9.8 Python

  The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

  

Julia is a great language, if your focus is scientific programming: finding answers to tricky questions, then exploring the results. It's much weaker in the anything-can-happen world of production application development. I've been exploring Genie, and stumbling over tasks that are routine in Rails, Django, and other mature Web frameworks. I wouldn't start with Julia if my goal was production code.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• fastapi

  468 71,023 9.8 Python

  FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

Python? Well heck. Python was partially created as a learning language. You'll find a wealth of documentation, libraries, and tools that'll help you along every step of the way. Multiple Web frameworks — I use Django at work but suggest FastAPI for today's brand new Web dev. Lots of desktop application support from frameworks like Beeware.

• Visual Studio Code

  2,844 158,365 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

With Pylint and Mypy, or just a decent editing environment — Visual Studio Code shines here — your code can be cleaner than a freshly scrubbed plate.

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