If your goal is purely academic Rust would be a good language to learn.
But in terms of marketability it's still very niche - you're just as likely to find a job using LUA or Crystal.
Since you're just starting out, why not learn something like Ruby or Python? They're both easy to learn, and more importantly will allow you to find a job. Even Go is a good language to learn because it's being adopted by companies left and right for it's predictability.
If you want to really go off the deep end and get that hipster programmer street cred, learn Meteor. It just got a staggering $22M funding round and it not going anywhere anytime soon. Since you're new, I highly recommend Meteor. It's going to let you build website in a fraction of the time, and it's just so darn fun to use.
If your goal is purely academic Rust would be a good language to learn.
But in terms of marketability it's still very niche - you're just as likely to find a job using LUA or Crystal.
Since you're just starting out, why not learn something like Ruby or Python? They're both easy to learn, and more importantly will allow you to find a job. Even Go is a good language to learn because it's being adopted by companies left and right for it's predictability.
If you want to really go off the deep end and get that hipster programmer street cred, learn Meteor. It just got a staggering $22M funding round and it not going anywhere anytime soon. Since you're new, I highly recommend Meteor. It's going to let you build website in a fraction of the time, and it's just so darn fun to use.
Alright cool, thanks for the suggestions. I'll take a look into Meteor and I'll also start looking more into Python and Ruby.
I would really like to start working on Java again but I just haven't been able to find a site that can help me with that language like Codecadmy.