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Ok, if you really need some arguments have a look here. You will see that JavaScript has 3 or 4 times the amount of complainants that Python does.

https://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks

On top of that Python has a solid set of libraries for it. In my experience with JavaScript (admittedly a lot more limited than with Python or Perl), the library support is far poorer. Angular is one of the most popular frameworks out there and the documentation is terrible. Compare that to any major framework in Python or Perl and you will see the difference.



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