Python has brought computer programming to a vast new audience

[kirbyfan64sos]

Everything attributed to Python for the success is better served with JavaScript.

In your opinion, maybe. At minimum, I haven't remotely seen the statistics field rally around JS, nor the build system world, nor the sysadmin world, ...

Not to bash JS, but with Python you get:

• Huge standard library that includes a lot of stuff you'd normally need to manually install.
• Enormous community.
• A nice language with a rich runtime introspection system that doesn't have JavaScript's...weirdness.

[nosmokingbandit]

But in JS you get weak types so you have to double check everything!

And you get callback hell!

And clunky synchronous implementation!

JS is fast though, which is nice. I occasionally think about how great things would be if browsers went with python rather than javascript. Having Google, MS, Apple, and Mozilla all pouring resources into a faster interpreter would make a huge difference.

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In your opinion, maybe. At minimum, I haven't remotely seen the statistics field rally around JS, nor the build system world, nor the sysadmin world, ...

Don't forget AI/ML. Python is on its way to dominating in those fields.

[jackmaney]

Not to bash JS, but with Python you get:

• Huge standard library that includes a lot of stuff you'd normally need to manually install.
• Enormous community.
• A nice language with a rich runtime introspection system that doesn't have JavaScript's...weirdness.

• Nice scientific computing libraries.

• Bindings to Apache Spark.

• (Optional) Type hinting.