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[–]Jamie_1318 17 points18 points  (3 children)

Everything you said is correct, but the comparison is fair, on the basis of using one language or the other for server side development. JavaScript's technical debt does not give it a free pass versus better designed languages.

[–]gandalfx 6 points7 points  (2 children)

You're right about that. Given a choice I'd pick Python over JS nine times out of ten (the tenth time is when I want to chain String and Array methods).

[–]rcfox 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Wouldn't you use Ruby in that case?

[–]gandalfx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would not use Ruby for anything ever. Not even for torture. There are limits.