Which programming language is the hardest to learn?

Question

(This is from a beginner's perspective)
Take syntax into account

Answer 1

This question has no answer, each and every language was developed with a purpose/goal.
It all depends on your needs, if you want to develop an android app and try to use Swift, you'd be hard pressed to find a harder way to do it.
Also languages usually try to find a balance between performance, readability and maintainability (among other characteristics). Again it all comes down to the requirements of your project.

Answer 2

MALBOLGE

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge

And all esoteric programming languages :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language

Answer 3

agree with the assembler reference. it is highly attune to how you think. I've always liked it, but I also like procedural flow of programs... oop programmers seem to struggle with it more....

Answer 4

asm