Me and my dad are undertaking some new language to learn for whatever reason.

He wants to learn it to learn it, and I want to learn it to make games.

(But of course.)

We've done a little bit of digging and found a bunch of ups and downs pertaining to both languages and I'd like to ask out of all of you, who program in either (all three of you :D ),

Which is the better language overall?

I hear some things like C# is missing compatibilities, C++ is more complicated, C++ is more widely used, C# is easier, all that drivel.

We all know that the main reason one really uses Game Maker is because it's the fastest way to put something together almost wholly.

(That's why I use it anyway)

So if C# is easier to get a handle of, then why not use that, right?

But C++ is probably going to be easier to land jobs with.

~What a bunch of craaap~

(And for whatever reason, the option that I can learn one, and then the other later, is out of the question. I guess the real question is "which one should we tackle first?")