I can't say I'm as familiar with ruby bindings, I have dabbled with node bindings.... JS could sort of probably do most things Python can, except for there not

I can't say I'm as familiar with ruby bindings, I have dabbled with node bindings.... JS could sort of probably do most things Python can, except for there not being a huge effort for JS things to be native binary (compiling an exe wrapper that executes a VM is not the same thing, e.g. electron). I know there are various C++ injected JS dependencies on node... Python has a distinct advantage of being a bit closer to the metal, though. Yeah the default python intepreter yadayada - but that's the honda civic bit. You can compile python to c code, compile it, and _call random python modules from within your c code_ all automatically. Or generate a binary c module, or create or a fully compiled exe, or create a python app with an embedded vm, or run the whole thing in a JIT....there's a lot of flexibility. "Oh but with package XYZ I can cobble together something similar in JS" - yeah, you probably can, but normally you have to contend with a browser, or modules written for a browser, or a DOM, or a transpiler/webmaplicabroominator (don't ask, there's some real nonsense in the JS space) - its all non-standard, plus most of it has only existed for <5 years, python land has had this for...decades now? JS is what you get when you build a language around a DOM, don't get me wrong, it can do some nifty things. Python is what you get when you mostly don't care about fancy UI... I suspect Ruby is in a closer boat to Python than JS, but, python has been a more perlesque language insofar as its use as a glue language, Ruby is/was definitely focused on being a fantastic web rendering language (with a bit of JS UI glue). This is evident where python is often used - you can normally get a python binding, even if you don't have a JS or ruby binding. Again, not the world - as far as type safety there are much better alternatives than any of these, for systems or reliability I would not depend on python (alone).