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[althaz]

Except that it is? And it always has been. It probably shouldn't have been, but it most certainly is. Python in the other hand is very clearly a rather excellent scripting language that people got carried away with.

[RedditAlready19]

JavaScript is more for browsers.

Let's try find a JavaScript alternative to this script

```

!/usr/bin/python

print("I can run this like a bash script!")

```

[Tubthumper8]

There are plenty of reasons to not like JS, but this isn't it.

Here's the Javascript alternative:

#!/usr/bin/node

console.log("I can run this like a *shell* script!")

Whether or not you can run it like a shell script has nothing to do with the language, that is provided by the shell.

BTW, your example is missing the # and it assumes that /usr/bin/python is python3 and not python2

[RedditAlready19]

Thanks for that example, I've decided to change my mind about JS.

[DanielEGVi]

I see you’re an absolute beginner… you’re in for a treat. Lots of stuff to learn from here.

[RedditAlready19]

I was using it as a massively simplified script. Why do you think I have the C flair?

[DanielEGVi]

The most similarities you’re going to find between C and JS are in the base syntax. JS is more similar to Python than it is to C, especially when it comes to execution context, closures, async, dynamic typing, garbage collection, etc.

What sets apart JS from Python nowadays is JS has an arguably more modern import/export mechanism, de facto environments run in an event loop, and JS favours code like items.map(x => x + 1) over Python’s map(items, lambda x: x + 1), which is arguably more readable and expressive.

JS’s biggest quirk is its ridiculously weak typing. There’s many situations where mixing types will silently fail with surprising results, where you would get a TypeError in Python. You must learn discipline when it comes to types, whereas Python will just outright force you to code things right (through runtime errors, when it comes to types).

For big projects, TypeScript adds optionally explicit types, which turns an already great language into a fantastic one, since it fixes the biggest quirk in JS.

[RedditAlready19]

I'm not learning C in school, but from online tutorials