Easy to learn, hard to master, used for things it wasn’t created for.

Yep.

But they’re both programming languages…

I think they meant javascript is to web dev as python is to software dev

I think it’s a 4chan post and thus intentionally dumb.

it’s a 4chan post, they don’t “think” they are lawless animals, deprived from any sense of rationality

I read it as them both being loose-typed interpreted and widelly used languages.

That’s the joke

It’s implying js isn’t a programming language because web stuff isn’t real programming

Web stuff is like 99% of all programming across the world, but okay.

They do share a significant commonality, though; they are both interpreted languages, rather than compiled. Sure, you can compile them, but they are meant to be run interpreted so you can quickly and easily tweak and change things and not have to wait for compilation to see the results. In that regard they are very comparable.

used for things it wasn’t created for

I think Python gets a point here, as it is very good at doing what it was created for.
Javascript even sucks at its stated goal.

You don’t master Javascript, ever. You just become accustomed to the madness and stop caring, while sometimes doing things right.

Is there a typescript analogue for python? Preferably that adds curly braces?

what was the original goal of python?

The goal for Python 3 was to be an all purpose language that the general population could use for their everyday computing tasks

What was it created for?

Looking nice and upsetting people.

Gotta say, ive done magical things in Javascript. NodeJS in particular can do damn near anything you set your mind to, and it doesnt give a damn if you use tab or 4 spaces.

For real, you really can do anything there, sometimes sacrificing efficiency, but still.

used for things it wasn’t created for.

so, like 90% of all programming languages

Python is the connective tissue holding together library calls and some of our most advanced AI research is reliant on that. mildly concerning

Many banking systems sync with one another with txt files so… Yeah…

Many banking systems sync with one another with txt files.

You don’t want to know how bad it is. A good friend is a consultant/business analyst for some salesforce-based loan software. Shit’s terrifying.

(Nobody tell him about the Cobol batch jobs that still run overnight.)

If you think that’s bad, don’t think about how many important communications in the world happen completely verbally.

Pretty much all online service APIs (Google APIs, Facebook and so on) out there are text-based.

Granted, JSON formatted text, but still absolutelly human readable text.

The reason for that is because it’s agnostic of the machine architectures (stuff like endianess) on both sides.

The really crazy stuff in banking are the old binary protocols (like EDF) from the time when bandwidth was way less than now (so, the early 90s and earlier).

Since JavaScript is newer than Python, sure JS is the Python of programming languages /s

This one triggers the entire spectrum of human emotion.

I had to do a project once with JavaScript. I did not enjoy the experience. In my opinion, a language where you need a reference to tell true from false is a bad language. So maybe JavaScript is the JavaScript of languages.

Javascript is the javascript of JavaScript

It’s only JavaScript if it is from the ECMA region in Europe. Otherwise it’s just sparkling java…

I’m not a programmer but I took a class in JavaScript. Unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean by reference, I don’t recall that feature of the language. Can you explain?

A language reference (a manual). It’s not a language feature.

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