I am a Python fan and I'm not a huge fan of JavaScript, but I do understand why many people love using JavaScript/TypeScript: 1. It's available in the Browser

I am a Python fan and I'm not a huge fan of JavaScript, but I do understand why many people love using JavaScript/TypeScript: 1. It's available in the Browser which opens a lot of possibilities. Yes, there are transpilers for other languages but it's not the same. 2. On the server side is really fast. In fact JavaScript is one of the fastest dynamic languages out there. Much better performance than Python (even with PyPy), Ruby or Perl. 3. With TypeScript you get amazing IDE support. Which is something that you just don't have with Ruby, Python or Perl. Yes, I'm aware of PyCharm, but it's not up to the things that you can do with VS and TypeScript. 4. I know the language has some design mistakes, especially around operators and other few things. But in the end the language is small enough and simple enough that it's easy to learn. And it's also easy to learn how to avoid the pitfalls of the language as well. So in the end that's not much of a problem. Besides that, even when the language is simple, it's still quite powerful because of its dynamicity, closures and prototype oriented programming. In the end you can be as concise as you are with Ruby, Python or Perl.