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What's the best language to learn next?

Hi! I currently use Node.js and ajax for websites, what do you think is a good language to learn next? I've been considering react.js. What are your thoughts?
Thanks

on June 1, 2019
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    Hi, if you like to learn how to solve problems differently than in most other mainstream programming languages, I would recommend you to take a look at Clojure. This video explains the differences very well:

    https://youtu.be/vK1DazRK_a0

    If you are into web development and React take a look at ClojureScript (compiles to JS) and shadow-cljs too:

    https://github.com/shadow-cljs/lein-template

    Best regards,

    Max

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      Oh wow thanks Max, I'll be sure to check it out

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      Wow! Clojure also came up in some earlier posts as well. It's great to see many Clojure enthusiasts here.

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      Interesting @maxweber

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        Happy to answer questions :)

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    Clean terminology here: you learned javascript, so if you learned react.js you wouldn't be learning a new language, you'd be learning a framework.
    Decide is you want a fancy SPA and then if so use javascript in the browser, if not use server-side rendering template languages like jade (pug) with node.js

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      I have been using a lot of EJS lately but I've been venturing into front-end communication with nodejs so I'll probably learn react.js as a framework. Thanks