vanag's comments

It is a sign that the Mozilla insistence on VS is harming the project. clang/gcc are also available on windows. They would really help to unify/simplify build system and the development process. Another serious weakness is the lack of ability to build FF with gtk on windows if I so desire. Moreover gcc offers windows 64 bit options. They should also support a modular codebase with complete third party dependencies. But more importantly it seems that they hope Rust cab become the de facto way of developing FF. It is a promising direction but it cannot remedy the VS mania.

I agree with others. Age is an excuse. Start simple. Java is great (use netbeans). Go is another option. JavaScript/C/C++ are definitely not for the beginners. Java probably is the best. But please accompany it with a good book on algorithms.

there are also many free material on the internet. Start with this first and the use java in parallel with a second reading. Just buy a cheap black and white laserjet.

Good luck, success is imminent.

There is one language to kill JS and Dart. It is TCL and it is here with two decades of development and sane. Why develop these languages when TCL has everything and can run in the browser or even with NaCl.