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Mobile may be the future, but Swift is limited to one vendors mobile platform, while there are a ton of languages (C#, JS, Python, Ruby, even Haskell) that you can use for mobile that aren't limited to one vendor''s platform. Plus, "mobile" usually has a server component, and those other languages can also be used for the server end.

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Where can you run python on Mobile? Also, yes of course it's one vendor. One vendor that also has the world's most profitable app store. OP asked for a language to get started with. In my personal experience, being able to see items move on screen is a lot more intriguing to beginners than doing some server specific tasks like building an API.

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