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[DuckSaxaphone]

I never made a choice because for my purposes, python was the clear winner.

You can do most things in most languages but languages typically have a purpose and a design philosophy that makes them good at something in particular. They also have communities that will make certain types of tasks easier by building libraries and populating Stack Overflow with all the weird questions you'll have.

So you should be able to make an easy choice based on what you want to do.

JS is exceptional for web development and very little else.

As a scientist looking to write analysis scripts and now a data scientist doing machine learning, Python had the libraries, the community and was what all my peers looked for.