Pufferfish_Test wrote:

Ijs can just be run in the console in any site (yes, I know, csp but that's an exception), and can often also be run on a server using node.js, whereas to run python you need to install python

Pufferfish_Test wrote:

Js is capable of making some pretty complex graphics when combined with html, something which you can't do particularly easily with python.

Pufferfish_Test wrote:

If course, the syntax is completely different, and isn't really comparable; most people find python's syntax easier at first, but I find that more complex syntax is really confusing, whilst I find js' syntax makes more sense and is more consistent - to a certain extent.

Pufferfish_Test wrote:

In the end, there isn't one that's better. It's all down to personal preferences.
although python has a package for everything

• Text processing
  
• Working with text encodings and binary data
  
• Date and time calculations
  
• Various data structures
  
• Mathematical operations
  
• Functional programming
  
• Working with files
  
• Serializing Python objects
  
• SQLite
  
• Different data compression formats
  
• Reading and writing CSV and similar file formats
  
• Parsing command line arguments (although I would recommend using a library for that)
  
• Log files
  
• Using functions written in C
  
• Threads
  
• Multiprocessing
  
• Asynchronous I/O (unfortunately not as good as JavaScript promises)
  
• Networking
  
• JSON
  
• Media types
  
• Base64 encoding and decoding
  
• HTML
  
• XML
  
• Interacting with web browsers
  
• CGI
  
• WSGI
  
• Working with URLs
  
• HTTP requests (again, a library is recommended instead)
  
• FTP, IMAP, SMTP etc. protocols
  
• SMTP servers
  
• UUIDs
  
• HTTP servers
  
• IP addresses
  
• Working with some media files
  
• Converting between color systems
  
• gettext
  
• Turtle graphics
  
• Graphical user interfaces (tkinter)
  
• Working with various language features (e.g. bytecode files)
  

potatophant wrote:

C# better than than both of them… combined.

potatophant wrote:

Python has wierd syntax

potatophant wrote:

If you want other people to run your program, you'll either have to bundle python with it, have it download at install-time, or just have them install it.

Maximouse wrote:

You can run Python in a web browser, as I mentioned in a previous post.
(If you want to make a standalone application in JavaScript, you need to bundle node.js, a web browser, or both with it.)

I don't know why people say this. Python's syntax looks much cleaner than C-style syntax.

C# is a compiled language, you can't compare it with Python or JavaScript.

potatophant wrote:

Maximouse wrote:

You can run Python in a web browser, as I mentioned in a previous post.
(If you want to make a standalone application in JavaScript, you need to bundle node.js, a web browser, or both with it.)

ElectronJS and react-native are extremely simple to build for both the web and native

Maximouse wrote:

potatophant wrote:

Maximouse wrote:

You can run Python in a web browser, as I mentioned in a previous post.
(If you want to make a standalone application in JavaScript, you need to bundle node.js, a web browser, or both with it.)

ElectronJS and react-native are extremely simple to build for both the web and native

So Python isn't? PyInstaller is simple to use too, and its output is relatively small (Python itself is only about 4 MB).

Pufferfish_Test wrote:

It depends on what you want to do. Python is great for data mangling, as I like to call it, but if you want to share it with other people, it can be difficult compared to js - js can just be run in the console in any site (yes, I know, csp but that's an exception), and can often also be run on a server using node.js, whereas to run python you need to install python, or find a virtual machine (a repl or glitch project maybe) that you can download it on. Js is capable of making some pretty complex graphics when combined with html, something which you can't do particularly easily with python. If course, the syntax is completely different, and isn't really comparable; most people find python's syntax easier at first, but I find that more complex syntax is really confusing, whilst I find js' syntax makes more sense and is more consistent - to a certain extent.
In the end, there isn't one that's better. It's all down to personal preferences.
although python has a package for everything

{
    "script":"print('hey')"
}

{
    "script":"print('hey')"
    "output":"hey"
     "timestamp":123456789
}

gosoccerboy5 wrote:

Would javascript be a better language if it weren't for old browsers and scripts forcing backwards compatibility?

Maximouse wrote:

gosoccerboy5 wrote:

Would javascript be a better language if it weren't for old browsers and scripts forcing backwards compatibility?

Possibly, but in this case it would probably removed and replaced with something new.

Pufferfish_Test wrote:

although python has a package for everything

uwv wrote:

Pufferfish_Test wrote:

although python has a package for everything

npm go brrrr