[onion2k]

The easiest language to learn is whichever has the best tools available to you to learn with.

If you're someone who can just read a book and go from there, try a few books and go with whatever one you like most. If you prefer learning by being taught, find courses need you and learn the language that they teach. If you want to learn online, go to Coursera or Treehouse and pick an option. And so on.

Don't choose an "easy" language and then struggle with the learning material - pick good learning materials first, learn how to write some simple code, and then use that knowledge to learn a more appropriate language for what you have in mind.

[BorisMelnik]

this - I remembered when I tried learning Ruby on a Windows machine. Spent hours just trying to get everything compatible.

php on the other hand was easy to learn in notepad and run on my domain sitting on linux.