If this is a career thing, it's usually better to be an expert in one language than an amateur in a dozen of them. Try them both, proceed with the one you like best, because in the end, you will be judged by what you produce with it.

No matter how much nerd-cred a language has, it is hard to be productive with a language that you hate.

edit: FWIW, we are commenting on a site by a billionaire who seeded his fortune by writing a program in LISP back when almost everyone else thought that LISP was long-dead and buried.