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tbh they seem like two completely different worlds, and if you're experienced in the java ecosystem (or have a C/C++ mentality), then this makes perfects sense.

But I'm not sure java is exactly without criticism either.

Lua and Love2D (and with Fennel on top) makes for a good teaching setup, IMHO.

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I'm experienced across many languages. Including Haskell (professionally), Rust (for fun) and Ruby/Python/TypeScript.

When you say "fennel on top", sure that makes all the difference! I've argued in favour of using a LISP/Scheme for teaching students in the local uni i'm active in, but the businesses requesting "give us close to Java/C# certified graduates" won.

Edsgar Dijkstra wrote a nice piece on this.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/OtherDocs...

While attempting to teach callbacks to a room full of C# devs i figured lua was the easiest for creating readable examples. The language has very good teachable aspects. I'd pick lua over python as a teacher to teach data structures

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