Pros of JavaScript

• 1.7K

  Can be used on frontend/backend
• 1.5K

  It's everywhere
• 1.2K

  Lots of great frameworks
• 896

  Fast
• 745

  Light weight
• 425

  Flexible
• 392

  You can't get a device today that doesn't run js
• 286

  Non-blocking i/o
• 236

  Ubiquitousness
• 191

  Expressive
• 55

  Extended functionality to web pages
• 49

  Relatively easy language
• 46

  Executed on the client side
• 30

  Relatively fast to the end user
• 25

  Pure Javascript
• 21

  Functional programming
• 15

  Async
• 13

  Full-stack
• 12

  Setup is easy
• 12

  Its everywhere
• 11

  JavaScript is the New PHP
• 11

  Because I love functions
• 10

  Like it or not, JS is part of the web standard
• 9

  Can be used in backend, frontend and DB
• 9

  Expansive community
• 9

  Future Language of The Web
• 9

  Easy
• 8

  No need to use PHP
• 8

  For the good parts
• 8

  Can be used both as frontend and backend as well
• 8

  Everyone use it
• 8

  Most Popular Language in the World
• 8

  Easy to hire developers
• 7

  Love-hate relationship
• 7

  Powerful
• 7

  Photoshop has 3 JS runtimes built in
• 7

  Evolution of C
• 7

  Popularized Class-Less Architecture & Lambdas
• 7

  Agile, packages simple to use
• 7

  Supports lambdas and closures
• 6

  1.6K Can be used on frontend/backend
• 6

  It's fun
• 6

  Hard not to use
• 6

  Nice
• 6

  Client side JS uses the visitors CPU to save Server Res
• 6

  Versitile
• 6

  It let's me use Babel & Typescript
• 6

  Easy to make something
• 6

  Its fun and fast
• 6

  Can be used on frontend/backend/Mobile/create PRO Ui
• 5

  Function expressions are useful for callbacks
• 5

  What to add
• 5

  Client processing
• 5

  Everywhere
• 5

  Scope manipulation
• 5

  Stockholm Syndrome
• 5

  Promise relationship
• 5

  Clojurescript
• 4

  Because it is so simple and lightweight
• 4

  Only Programming language on browser
• 1

  Hard to learn
• 1

  Test
• 1

  Test2
• 1

  Easy to understand
• 1

  Not the best
• 1

  Easy to learn
• 1

  Subskill #4
• 0

  Hard 彤

Pros of Om

Pros of Python

• 1.2K

  Great libraries
• 959

  Readable code
• 844

  Beautiful code
• 785

  Rapid development
• 688

  Large community
• 434

  Open source
• 391

  Elegant
• 280

  Great community
• 272

  Object oriented
• 218

  Dynamic typing
• 77

  Great standard library
• 58

  Very fast
• 54

  Functional programming
• 48

  Easy to learn
• 45

  Scientific computing
• 35

  Great documentation
• 28

  Easy to read
• 28

  Productivity
• 28

  Matlab alternative
• 23

  Simple is better than complex
• 20

  It's the way I think
• 19

  Imperative
• 18

  Free
• 18

  Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
• 17

  Machine learning support
• 17

  Powerfull language
• 16

  Fast and simple
• 14

  Scripting
• 12

  Explicit is better than implicit
• 11

  Ease of development
• 10

  Clear and easy and powerfull
• 9

  Unlimited power
• 8

  It's lean and fun to code
• 8

  Import antigravity
• 7

  Python has great libraries for data processing
• 7

  Print "life is short, use python"
• 6

  Flat is better than nested
• 6

  Readability counts
• 6

  Rapid Prototyping
• 6

  Fast coding and good for competitions
• 6

  Now is better than never
• 6

  There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
• 6

  High Documented language
• 6

  I love snakes
• 6

  Although practicality beats purity
• 6

  Great for tooling
• 5

  Great for analytics
• 5

  Lists, tuples, dictionaries
• 4

  Multiple Inheritence
• 4

  Complex is better than complicated
• 4

  Socially engaged community
• 4

  Easy to learn and use
• 4

  Simple and easy to learn
• 4

  Web scraping
• 4

  Easy to setup and run smooth
• 4

  Beautiful is better than ugly
• 4

  Plotting
• 4

  CG industry needs
• 3

  No cruft
• 3

  It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
• 3

  Many types of collections
• 3

  If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
• 3

  If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
• 3

  Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
• 3

  Pip install everything
• 3

  List comprehensions
• 3

  Generators
• 3

  Import this
• 2

  Flexible and easy
• 2

  Batteries included
• 2

  Can understand easily who are new to programming
• 2

  Powerful language for AI
• 2

  Should START with this but not STICK with This
• 2

  A-to-Z
• 2

  Because of Netflix
• 2

  Only one way to do it
• 2

  Better outcome
• 2

  Good for hacking
• 1

  Securit
• 1

  Slow
• 1

  Sexy af
• 0

  Ni
• 0

  Powerful

Cons of JavaScript

• 22

  A constant moving target, too much churn
• 20

  Horribly inconsistent
• 15

  Javascript is the New PHP
• 9

  No ability to monitor memory utilitization
• 8

  Shows Zero output in case of ANY error
• 7

  Thinks strange results are better than errors
• 6

  Can be ugly
• 3

  No GitHub
• 2

  Slow

Cons of Om

Cons of Python

• 53

  Still divided between python 2 and python 3
• 28

  Performance impact
• 26

  Poor syntax for anonymous functions
• 22

  GIL
• 19

  Package management is a mess
• 14

  Too imperative-oriented
• 12

  Hard to understand
• 12

  Dynamic typing
• 12

  Very slow
• 8

  Indentations matter a lot
• 8

  Not everything is expression
• 7

  Incredibly slow
• 7

  Explicit self parameter in methods
• 6

  Requires C functions for dynamic modules
• 6

  Poor DSL capabilities
• 6

  No anonymous functions
• 5

  Fake object-oriented programming
• 5

  Threading
• 5

  The "lisp style" whitespaces
• 5

  Official documentation is unclear.
• 5

  Hard to obfuscate
• 5

  Circular import
• 4

  Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
• 4

  The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
• 4

  Not suitable for autocomplete
• 2

  Meta classes
• 1

  Training wheels (forced indentation)