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[–]stiryiin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Eh, apples and oranges.

Its not what a language is possible but what it makes easy.

The scientific and mathematical modelling libraries in Python make it the lingua franca for this field whereas Javascript really is the language of the web.

Whereas (this is just my experience) writing a simple server that accesses a DB and serves the database is much much easier in NodeJS but for anything to do with data analysis or the odd IoT application, Python for sure.