Asklemmy

I think if you can already program in a scripting language then learning another scripting language is relatively easy as you already know the concepts.

Even switching between more different languages say low level assembler and c++ should be doable.

Switching from English to Mandarin is allegedly quite hard, but I've always struggled with learning new languages

Way easier, learning a language to be able to read, listen and be understood when speaking is very hard, learning a language to be able to speak and also sound normal doing it is years worth of everyday practice

In contrast, if you really try you can have a good understanding of a programming language within a month, maybe sooner if it's not your first programming language

Easier, way easier.

I'm learning Chinese but I can barely communicate. If I spent this time on a programming language I'd have learnt 5 of them by now.

Learning any spoken language is way harder.

Learning the language -- easier.

Writing good software -- harder.

As an immigrant who had to learn English (and a very small amount of French) and also programming languages, programming languages are much, much easier. You don't have to deal with tenses or conjugation, you don't have to learn pronounciation rules because most things you express in programming is not directly pronouncable, there isn't a million weird syntax and spelling exceptions that you just have to memorize, and you don't have this disparity between formal and casual language. Learning technical or literary writing is even more complex.

Computer science as a whole is in my opinion more like learning a language. Once you know the fundamental concepts of computation, different programming languages are more like dialects than full languages.

definitely easier, but i helps if you know the language that the programming language is targetted to.

python, for example, was created in the netherlands, but it's definately written for english speakers.

Much easier because you need to learn a lot less vocab and grammar.

but harder because u have to give a very very detailed instructions instead of just saying what you want.

Not comparable, the "language" part of programming language is more an analogy for human-machine programming interface. It's an abstraction for logicical instructions and not comparable to human-to-human communication IMHO

I’d say you’re trying to compare apples and oranges. They’re both called languages but their differences dwarf their similarities.

Once you learn one programming language, learning other ones is easier, because now you know how to program, which in many ways is the hard part, and distinct from the languages themselves.

I feel like assuming you already know at least one programming language it's a lot easier to pick up another one then it is to learn another language. But for the first one, I agree with others that it's like comparing appels to oranges.

Learning to code is way different than learning a language

Much easier. Learning a programming language is just a small part of learning to code and it doesn't take much effort at all.

I personally found it easier but this is anecdotal