What are the best languages to learn for someone coming from Python?

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Best languages to learn for someone coming from Python	Price	Site	Current stable version
-- Nim	-	https://nim-lang.org	0.18.0
-- C	-	-	-
-- Julia	-	julialang.org	1.0
-- Smalltalk	-	-	6.1
-- Xonsh	-	-	-

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My Recommendation for Nim

My Recommendation for Nim

Most of the best Python ideas are carried over

Small community

Familiar indentation-based blocks

No interpreter

Static typing that doesn't get in your way

Easy to integrate with other languages

It's very fast

My Recommendation for C

My Recommendation for C

Lets you learn a bit more in depth things that python does automatically

Python has excellent interop with C

Learn about buffers

C has great synergy with Python

My Recommendation for Julia

My Recommendation for Julia

PyJulia package calls Julia in Python scripts

Lisplike macros

PyCall package calls Python functions

High performance

Nice regular syntax

Great standard REPL

Used in Data Science as Python

My Recommendation for Smalltalk

My Recommendation for Smalltalk

As a first language, almost forces you to learn OO design.

Not common

Lets you inspect and manipulate live objects

Virtual machine in its own isolated world

Extremely simple grammar

Little practical usage

Powerful integrated debugger

Language uniformity

Superb Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Easy to learn and experiment

My Recommendation for Xonsh

My Recommendation for Xonsh

Rust-like macros

Easy Python interop

Excellent for glue code

Superset of Python

Use it as your shell

My Recommendation for Racket

My Recommendation for Racket

Racket was designed to teach functional programming from the start

Free resources to learn

Easily embeddable

My Recommendation for Cython

My Recommendation for Cython

Good for interfacing C/C++/Fortran libs

Full control over the types

Superset of Python

My Recommendation for Haskell

My Recommendation for Haskell

Very Different with Python

Powerful static type system that helps with finding errors at compile-time

Monad comprehensions

Technique is applicable to Python

My Recommendation for Hy

My Recommendation for Hy

Can import Python modules

My Recommendation for Haxe

My Recommendation for Haxe

My Recommendation for Boo

My Recommendation for Boo

IDE support

The documentation isn't as good as Python's

Static type safety

Inter-operates with other .NET languages

One of Unity's supported languages

Familiar syntax

My Recommendation for miniKanren

My Recommendation for miniKanren

Can be used in Python programs

Teaches you Logic Programming

My Recommendation for Stick with Python

My Recommendation for Stick with Python

Teaches you all the basics you need