I use Python for all of my one-offs and automation scripts still. If I were going to make a large-ish web service on my own, I'd choose Typescript. It's a fanta

I use Python for all of my one-offs and automation scripts still. If I were going to make a large-ish web service on my own, I'd choose Typescript. It's a fantastic middle ground and transpiles to a target that's guaranteed to see constant adoption & incremental performance gains that you'll get 'for free'. If you're looking at Node anyway, definitely consider TS. Low barrier (I just added a loader to my webpack config but there are other ways) and great reward in terms of writing and maintaining code.