- sequence[-1] - sequence[start:finish:step] - no need for "===" - try/except with specific exceptions - context managers - yield from - "in" on any itera

- sequence[-1] - sequence[start:finish:step] - no need for "===" - try/except with specific exceptions - context managers - yield from - "in" on any iterable - raise from - every empty object is false, all other are true - spread work on all iterables, not just arrays - f"{2:03}", f"{2:.2f}" and f"{date:%m/%d/%Y}" - / and // - no need for variable declaration keywords - 0b1111 - "else" in loops - := makes for explicit assignation + comparison instead of a footgun - None instead of null + undefined - set literals - matmul operator - foo > bar > baz - sorting callback semantics - dunder methods for operator overriding - list, dict and set comprehension - generator expressions - byte literals - raise SystemExit() for clean script exit - raw strings - automatic string literal concatenation - positional/keyword only parameters - can use *args and **kwargs together, as opposed to spread - docstrings - typing is part of the language, no need for a transpiled dialect like typescript - "async for" and "async with" That's only what I come up on the fly, I'm pretty sure I can double the list. Then of course, do we consider builtin to be part of the stdlib, since it doesn't require any import? Because there is a load to say there. JS does have some nice stuff too though: - ? and ?? - futures are more ergonomic than coroutines and awaitable anyway - more powerful destructuration - regex literals