Learning to play guitar is hard typically. Ive been playing for 8 years, piano for 10. Ive been giving private music lessons for near 6 years now and have had all types of students.
When learning to play guitar, at first, your fingers will hurt due to not being calloused. Once youget past that, depending on what you want to learn, it can be difficult to build dexterity, speed and playing cleanly. You can just jump into playing guitar and be steve vai in a month or 2. Once you get past the intermediate stuff, comes learning how to play outside of the scale boxes, along with playing melodic lines in tandem with chords (think hendrix, john mayer, etc).
All of that being said, if youve got the will and drive and inspiration, playing guitar can be very rewarding and very fun.
As a closing statement, if you are really interested in playing or learning an instrument, I very strongly suggest learning piano first. This is because Piano is a relatively easy instrument to learn due to the fact that you can actually see all of the pitches laid out sequentially as opposed to the guitar which has overlapping tones depending on what string youre on and where you are on the fretboard. A lot of the time, playing piano will make a lot more sense to someone who doesnt have any musical training.
Hope this has helped.
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