I could never teach JavaScript to beginners. There are a million ways to do everything, there are a million platforms each with their own compatibility quirks,

I could never teach JavaScript to beginners. There are a million ways to do everything, there are a million platforms each with their own compatibility quirks, almost everything is asynchronous, every framework tries to reinventing the language, and almost every project ends up with a massive, complex dependency tree. Python's whitespace rules are a minor nuisance to some, but at least there is consensus among Python devs on how to do something as fundamental as iterating over a list. I write JavaScript all the time. It has improved a lot over the last decade. But I could never teach it to a beginner. Don't get me wrong, though. I wouldn't teach Python to a beginner either.