Spot on! If we used JS, it would be very difficult to maintain the firm layer of abstraction that gets us out of the Turing Tarpit. Also, to a first approxima

Spot on! If we used JS, it would be very difficult to maintain the firm layer of abstraction that gets us out of the Turing Tarpit. Also, to a first approximation, people don't learn JS on its own. You only learn it if you're already learning traditional front-end development. That's a journey we explicitly want to save people from - so we didn't want to use a language that only web devs know. Python is a lot easier to pick up for non-Pythonistas than JS is for non-web developers. Perhaps we should write that blog post...