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I think it's a good choice if you're majoring in CS, or anything closely related where you are very likely to learn another general-purpose language anyway (or have done so), then it's an awesome way to see different paradigms.

I think it's a bad choice if this is your only programming course during your studies, then it would be much more helpful to learn something that is a safer bet you'll be using in your life continuing forward. Yes, even JavaScript. If you're interested, you'll pick up another language and apply what you learned here - but if not, then I think there's a better chance you'll recall what you learned with the mainstream model and work from there.

This is my unscientific opinion, but it's based on all my experience with non-programmers where you can be happy if they learned _something_ at all, they'll most often see themselves as "I learned some Python" for example, and are willing to expand from there, but they're more reluctant to transfer the knowledge to learn a new language. I don't think it's completely off, either, even drawing a parallel to learning natural languages (to a small degree, not full working proficiency).