Everybody hating on Java being the de facto language every student learns first (at least back when I was in university) but I think it’s actually a great first language while I don’t think python is for one simple reason: it has types but tries to hide them from you. It is soooo important to understand types early though.

True. To me, Lemmy feels somewhat more like the old vBulletin forums I used to browse 15 years ago.