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Brent Pfefferle
Brent Pfefferle
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Posted by Brent Pfefferle
Brent Pfefferle
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Stuart Wright
Stuart Wright
41,118 Points
Stuart Wright
Stuart Wright
41,118 Points

My opinion is that it doesn't really matter much which language you choose. There are several valid options, including the two that you've mentioned. You will learn useful concepts that relate to back-end programming in any language, no matter which language you choose to study now. I see from your profile that you've studied some JS, C# and PHP. Honestly I'd just say go with whichever of those three you liked the most, since with any of those you won't be starting completely from scratch. It is more difficult to learn how to bring everything together into a useful web application than it is to learn the syntax of any particular language, so my advice is basically to just choose one and get started, and know that the skills that you learn along the way will still be useful if you later decide that you'd prefer to use a different language.