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Pros of JavaScript
- Can be used on frontend/backend1.6K
- It's everywhere1.5K
- Lots of great frameworks1.2K
- Fast894
- Light weight741
- Flexible424
- You can't get a device today that doesn't run js391
- Non-blocking i/o286
- Ubiquitousness235
- Expressive190
- Extended functionality to web pages54
- Relatively easy language48
- Executed on the client side45
- Relatively fast to the end user29
- Pure Javascript24
- Functional programming20
- Async14
- Its everywhere11
- Full-stack11
- Setup is easy11
- Because I love functions10
- Like it or not, JS is part of the web standard9
- JavaScript is the New PHP9
- Expansive community8
- Can be used in backend, frontend and DB8
- Easy8
- Most Popular Language in the World7
- For the good parts7
- No need to use PHP7
- Future Language of The Web7
- Everyone use it7
- Easy to hire developers7
- Can be used both as frontend and backend as well7
- Supports lambdas and closures6
- Photoshop has 3 JS runtimes built in6
- Powerful6
- Love-hate relationship6
- Popularized Class-Less Architecture & Lambdas6
- Agile, packages simple to use6
- Evolution of C6
- It's fun5
- Its fun and fast5
- Hard not to use5
- 1.6K Can be used on frontend/backend5
- Client side JS uses the visitors CPU to save Server Res5
- It let's me use Babel & Typescript5
- Can be used on frontend/backend/Mobile/create PRO Ui5
- Easy to make something5
- Nice5
- Versitile5
- Scope manipulation4
- Stockholm Syndrome4
- Client processing4
- What to add4
- Clojurescript4
- Function expressions are useful for callbacks4
- Everywhere4
- Promise relationship4
- Only Programming language on browser3
- Because it is so simple and lightweight3
- Tenant0
- Easy to understand0
Pros of Julia
- Fast Performance and Easy Experimentation22
- Designed for parallelism and distributed computation21
- Free and Open Source17
- Dynamic Type System16
- Lisp-like Macros16
- Calling C functions directly16
- Multiple Dispatch15
- Powerful Shell-like Capabilities9
- Jupyter notebook integration8
- REPL7
- String handling4
- Emojis as variable names4
- Interoperability3
Pros of Python
- Great libraries1.2K
- Readable code948
- Beautiful code835
- Rapid development780
- Large community682
- Open source426
- Elegant385
- Great community278
- Object oriented268
- Dynamic typing214
- Great standard library75
- Very fast56
- Functional programming51
- Scientific computing43
- Easy to learn43
- Great documentation33
- Matlab alternative26
- Productivity25
- Easy to read25
- Simple is better than complex21
- It's the way I think18
- Imperative17
- Free15
- Very programmer and non-programmer friendly15
- Powerful14
- Machine learning support14
- Powerfull language14
- Fast and simple13
- Scripting12
- Explicit is better than implicit9
- Clear and easy and powerfull8
- Ease of development8
- Unlimited power8
- Import antigravity7
- It's lean and fun to code6
- Print "life is short, use python"6
- Python has great libraries for data processing5
- Fast coding and good for competitions5
- There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious5
- High Documented language5
- I love snakes5
- Although practicality beats purity5
- Flat is better than nested5
- Great for tooling5
- Readability counts4
- Rapid Prototyping4
- Web scraping3
- Plotting3
- Multiple Inheritence3
- Complex is better than complicated3
- Beautiful is better than ugly3
- Now is better than never3
- Lists, tuples, dictionaries3
- Socially engaged community3
- Great for analytics3
- CG industry needs3
- Generators2
- Simple and easy to learn2
- Import this2
- No cruft2
- Easy to learn and use2
- List comprehensions2
- Pip install everything2
- Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules2
- If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id2
- If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g2
- Easy to setup and run smooth2
- Many types of collections2
- Flexible and easy1
- Powerful language for AI1
- Shitty1
- It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi1
- Batteries included1
- Can understand easily who are new to programming1
- Should START with this but not STICK with This1
- A-to-Z1
- Only one way to do it1
- Because of Netflix1
- Better outcome1
- Good for hacking1
- Powerful0
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Cons of JavaScript
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Cons of Python
Cons of JavaScript
- A constant moving target, too much churn22
- Horribly inconsistent20
- Javascript is the New PHP15
- No ability to monitor memory utilitization8
- Shows Zero output in case of ANY error7
- Can be ugly6
- Thinks strange results are better than errors6
- No GitHub3
- Slow2
Cons of Julia
- Immature library management system5
- Slow program start4
- JIT compiler is very slow3
- Poor backwards compatibility3
- Bad tooling2
- No static compilation2
Cons of Python
- Still divided between python 2 and python 351
- Performance impact28
- Poor syntax for anonymous functions26
- GIL21
- Package management is a mess19
- Too imperative-oriented14
- Hard to understand12
- Dynamic typing12
- Very slow11
- Not everything is expression8
- Indentations matter a lot7
- Explicit self parameter in methods7
- Incredibly slow7
- Requires C functions for dynamic modules6
- Poor DSL capabilities6
- No anonymous functions6
- Official documentation is unclear.5
- The "lisp style" whitespaces5
- Fake object-oriented programming5
- Hard to obfuscate5
- Threading5
- Circular import4
- The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit4
- Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"4
- Not suitable for autocomplete4
- Meta classes2
- Training wheels (forced indentation)1
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What is JavaScript?
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
What is Julia?
Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library.
What is Python?
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
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TypeScript
TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
Dart
Dart is a cohesive, scalable platform for building apps that run on the web (where you can use Polymer) or on servers (such as with Google Cloud Platform). Use the Dart language, libraries, and tools to write anything from simple scripts to full-featured apps.
CoffeeScript
It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Specific additional features include list comprehension and de-structuring assignment.
Java
Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!