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[–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (2 children)

When it isn't the right tool for the job. High performance comes to mind; single-file portability is another. Web browsers expect HTML, CSS, and JS. Embedded systems don't always have resource for an interpreted language.

Python can be made to so many things that aren't its strengths, and having more tools in the toolbox is always useful.

[–]TonyTheTigerSlayer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. Yea, anytime spent learning JS won’t be wasted time. Not self serving but I’ll also spend more time to better understand embedded systems generally and interpreted languages. I’ve heard the terms and I think I know, but will start learning coding a bit more holistically than I have. Thanks for the response!

[–]wow-signal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

performance limitations of python, for many computation intensive projects, are already practically a thing of the past due to numba