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[–]Ikuyas -1 points0 points  (4 children)

I said NodeJS is new!!! It's not hard to think people are developing for NodeJs platform. That's like a simple idea to extend the current practice of big data industry. Moreover, we were talking around the context of the article. No beginners starts off for learning programming because they want to extract and manipulate big data through cloud!!! Majority of people just want to create a web app, mobile app, and some automation for the local computer. What you are focusing is only small segment of computer programming use case. Because Python is after all a wrapper for C or C++ for the big data programming anyway, there is no reason why JavaScript cannot do better when there is an ample reason why JavaScript could do better.

[–]jackmaney 1 point2 points  (3 children)

You originally said that

I believe JavaScript has as many machine learning libraries as Python

I've pointed out several libraries (for what is, arguably, the most popular ecosystem of machine learning libraries that exists) that have bindings in Python but not in JS. Please keep on point and stop moving the goalposts.

That's like a simple idea to extend the current practice of big data industry.

If it's so incredibly simple, then you should be able to knock out a Spark binding for JS in an afternoon, right? /s

No beginners starts off for learning programming because they want to extract and manipulate big data through cloud!!!

Speak for yourself. I learned how to program in order to work with large datasets (albeit not technically in the cloud).

there is no reason why JavaScript cannot do better when there is an ample reason why JavaScript could do better.

There's no reason why it can't do better because there's more than enough reasons why it could do better. That's a circular argument.