JavaScript vs Julia vs Python

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JavaScript

300.6K
239.1K
+ 1
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Julia

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626
+ 1
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Python

207.8K
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+ 1
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Pros of JavaScript
Pros of Julia
Pros of Python
  • 1.6K
    Can be used on frontend/backend
  • 1.5K
    It's everywhere
  • 1.2K
    Lots of great frameworks
  • 894
    Fast
  • 741
    Light weight
  • 424
    Flexible
  • 391
    You can't get a device today that doesn't run js
  • 286
    Non-blocking i/o
  • 235
    Ubiquitousness
  • 190
    Expressive
  • 54
    Extended functionality to web pages
  • 48
    Relatively easy language
  • 45
    Executed on the client side
  • 29
    Relatively fast to the end user
  • 24
    Pure Javascript
  • 20
    Functional programming
  • 14
    Async
  • 11
    Its everywhere
  • 11
    Full-stack
  • 11
    Setup is easy
  • 10
    Because I love functions
  • 9
    Like it or not, JS is part of the web standard
  • 9
    JavaScript is the New PHP
  • 8
    Expansive community
  • 8
    Can be used in backend, frontend and DB
  • 8
    Easy
  • 7
    Most Popular Language in the World
  • 7
    For the good parts
  • 7
    No need to use PHP
  • 7
    Future Language of The Web
  • 7
    Everyone use it
  • 7
    Easy to hire developers
  • 7
    Can be used both as frontend and backend as well
  • 6
    Supports lambdas and closures
  • 6
    Photoshop has 3 JS runtimes built in
  • 6
    Powerful
  • 6
    Love-hate relationship
  • 6
    Popularized Class-Less Architecture & Lambdas
  • 6
    Agile, packages simple to use
  • 6
    Evolution of C
  • 5
    It's fun
  • 5
    Its fun and fast
  • 5
    Hard not to use
  • 5
    1.6K Can be used on frontend/backend
  • 5
    Client side JS uses the visitors CPU to save Server Res
  • 5
    It let's me use Babel & Typescript
  • 5
    Can be used on frontend/backend/Mobile/create PRO Ui
  • 5
    Easy to make something
  • 5
    Nice
  • 5
    Versitile
  • 4
    Scope manipulation
  • 4
    Stockholm Syndrome
  • 4
    Client processing
  • 4
    What to add
  • 4
    Clojurescript
  • 4
    Function expressions are useful for callbacks
  • 4
    Everywhere
  • 4
    Promise relationship
  • 3
    Only Programming language on browser
  • 3
    Because it is so simple and lightweight
  • 0
    Tenant
  • 0
    Easy to understand
  • 22
    Fast Performance and Easy Experimentation
  • 21
    Designed for parallelism and distributed computation
  • 17
    Free and Open Source
  • 16
    Dynamic Type System
  • 16
    Lisp-like Macros
  • 16
    Calling C functions directly
  • 15
    Multiple Dispatch
  • 9
    Powerful Shell-like Capabilities
  • 8
    Jupyter notebook integration
  • 7
    REPL
  • 4
    String handling
  • 4
    Emojis as variable names
  • 3
    Interoperability
  • 1.2K
    Great libraries
  • 948
    Readable code
  • 835
    Beautiful code
  • 780
    Rapid development
  • 682
    Large community
  • 426
    Open source
  • 385
    Elegant
  • 278
    Great community
  • 268
    Object oriented
  • 214
    Dynamic typing
  • 75
    Great standard library
  • 56
    Very fast
  • 51
    Functional programming
  • 43
    Scientific computing
  • 43
    Easy to learn
  • 33
    Great documentation
  • 26
    Matlab alternative
  • 25
    Productivity
  • 25
    Easy to read
  • 21
    Simple is better than complex
  • 18
    It's the way I think
  • 17
    Imperative
  • 15
    Free
  • 15
    Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
  • 14
    Powerful
  • 14
    Machine learning support
  • 14
    Powerfull language
  • 13
    Fast and simple
  • 12
    Scripting
  • 9
    Explicit is better than implicit
  • 8
    Clear and easy and powerfull
  • 8
    Ease of development
  • 8
    Unlimited power
  • 7
    Import antigravity
  • 6
    It's lean and fun to code
  • 6
    Print "life is short, use python"
  • 5
    Python has great libraries for data processing
  • 5
    Fast coding and good for competitions
  • 5
    There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
  • 5
    High Documented language
  • 5
    I love snakes
  • 5
    Although practicality beats purity
  • 5
    Flat is better than nested
  • 5
    Great for tooling
  • 4
    Readability counts
  • 4
    Rapid Prototyping
  • 3
    Web scraping
  • 3
    Plotting
  • 3
    Multiple Inheritence
  • 3
    Complex is better than complicated
  • 3
    Beautiful is better than ugly
  • 3
    Now is better than never
  • 3
    Lists, tuples, dictionaries
  • 3
    Socially engaged community
  • 3
    Great for analytics
  • 3
    CG industry needs
  • 2
    Generators
  • 2
    Simple and easy to learn
  • 2
    Import this
  • 2
    No cruft
  • 2
    Easy to learn and use
  • 2
    List comprehensions
  • 2
    Pip install everything
  • 2
    Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
  • 2
    If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
  • 2
    If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
  • 2
    Easy to setup and run smooth
  • 2
    Many types of collections
  • 1
    Flexible and easy
  • 1
    Powerful language for AI
  • 1
    Shitty
  • 1
    It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
  • 1
    Batteries included
  • 1
    Can understand easily who are new to programming
  • 1
    Should START with this but not STICK with This
  • 1
    A-to-Z
  • 1
    Only one way to do it
  • 1
    Because of Netflix
  • 1
    Better outcome
  • 1
    Good for hacking
  • 0
    Powerful

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Cons of JavaScript
Cons of Julia
Cons of Python
  • 22
    A constant moving target, too much churn
  • 20
    Horribly inconsistent
  • 15
    Javascript is the New PHP
  • 8
    No ability to monitor memory utilitization
  • 7
    Shows Zero output in case of ANY error
  • 6
    Can be ugly
  • 6
    Thinks strange results are better than errors
  • 3
    No GitHub
  • 2
    Slow
  • 5
    Immature library management system
  • 4
    Slow program start
  • 3
    JIT compiler is very slow
  • 3
    Poor backwards compatibility
  • 2
    Bad tooling
  • 2
    No static compilation
  • 51
    Still divided between python 2 and python 3
  • 28
    Performance impact
  • 26
    Poor syntax for anonymous functions
  • 21
    GIL
  • 19
    Package management is a mess
  • 14
    Too imperative-oriented
  • 12
    Hard to understand
  • 12
    Dynamic typing
  • 11
    Very slow
  • 8
    Not everything is expression
  • 7
    Indentations matter a lot
  • 7
    Explicit self parameter in methods
  • 7
    Incredibly slow
  • 6
    Requires C functions for dynamic modules
  • 6
    Poor DSL capabilities
  • 6
    No anonymous functions
  • 5
    Official documentation is unclear.
  • 5
    The "lisp style" whitespaces
  • 5
    Fake object-oriented programming
  • 5
    Hard to obfuscate
  • 5
    Threading
  • 4
    Circular import
  • 4
    The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
  • 4
    Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
  • 4
    Not suitable for autocomplete
  • 2
    Meta classes
  • 1
    Training wheels (forced indentation)

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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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What are some alternatives to JavaScript, Julia, and Python?
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!
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