Most employable programming language to learn?

Enjoyable in what sense?

Java and... I hate to say this.. Python.

Ta love.

Is python especially difficult to learn, then?

Idiot

I just dislike the syntax style of Python.

I'm going to learn a programming language so I can have something extra to boost my CV. Was wondering what the most useful one would be to learn. Thanks.

It depends what you'd like to do. A programming language is a tool for solving a problem; as with most tools, the "best" language depends upon the problem. A better approach is to start by thinking about the kinds of jobs you'd like to apply for and the kinds of problems you might be looking at solving.

For example, someone doing a lot of work in Excel could benefit from learning VBA. Unfortunately VBA is a bit of an unpleasant language to learn and work with, but it's very useful in any job which uses a lot of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, although the kinds of things people write in VBA often end up being rather easy to break and a pain to keep fixing all the time.

Similarly, another language often worth learning (which isn't a programming language at all) would be SQL - this is a query language used for reading and transforming data stored in a database; most businesses these days tend to have a lot of data stored this way, so SQL and databases more generally are is quite transferrable skills even for non-technical people - with that said, you'd need to learn the bigger picture of Databases rather than just SQL

Or for anything involving the web, there are 3 'key' languages - HTML, CSS and JavaScript; these are the 3 languages which web browsers understand, so if you have any interest in building websites then these would be a good place to start.. JavaScript is the only 'programming' language out of those 3 though. HTML and CSS are for the layout and appearance of websites.

Python is a popular language for a lot of people who want to get their computer to automate tasks for them - with that said, Python on its own won't automate very much, you'd also need to learn a lot about the thing you're automating - for example, people use it to automate Windows tasks, or automate the handling of files containing a lot of data, or even automate tasks like 'web scraping' (reading data from websites). Python has a very human-friendly syntax (This is the reason why schools and GCSE exam boards use it for secondary level computing students) - if you're after an introductory programming language without any specific goal then Python is almost certainly the easiest starting point..

Finally there are languages which lend themselves to software engineering jobs like Java or C# or many others; these are tougher to learn than Python and realistically it's unlikely that you'd use these outside of a software engineering career. There's a lot more to learn than just a language for that, but it's entirely doable if you want to self-teach software engineering.