[motet_a]

C is interesting but old and unsafe, leading to memory corruption bugs. These bugs are often hard to find and compromise security. It is not always a good choice in real-world.

Rust, C++ and Haskell are much more complicated than JavaScript IMHO. Lisp is pretty old but there is a lot of modern Lisp-like languages.

Try them.

As cnnsucks said, reading code is important no matter what language you use. You can perfecly use JavaScript, Python, Go or Ruby and learn incredible tricks everyday, and these languages are used in the real-world.