I agree it might not be an issue for professional programmers, given the right tools. But there are plenty of people who would recommend Python over JS as a fi

I agree it might not be an issue for professional programmers, given the right tools. But there are plenty of people who would recommend Python over JS as a first programming language for exactly this reason. Python gives better error messages and has fewer WTFs. I think JS could be a good teaching language if it were not for the confusion over types, which is an important thing for a beginning programmer to understand.