I'll +1 on Python, a lot of languages are a bit of a pain to set up as well (I'm thinking back on setting up a LAMP stack for the first time, shudder ). It's a great general purpose language and often used as an alternative to churning out Bash scripts, and Bash is IMO too difficult for most practical applications.
Isn’t Docker supposed to help with this? Is there a LAMP reference implementation or VM, or a script to init a LAMP environment, if I’m even saying this right. I feel like such a noob sometimes and my first PC ran DOS a long time ago. That’s probably connected, although I also ran Linux, just not for daily driving. Computers are endless amusement to me in that way. There’s always more to learn or do, or others to talk to about what they are learning and doing. It’s great.
