I don't agree that python is more easily adopted by people learning. Perhaps the older versions of python sure, with contrived "hello world" examples where the

I don't agree that python is more easily adopted by people learning. Perhaps the older versions of python sure, with contrived "hello world" examples where there is not much going on. But with modern python it is a fucking disaster with pip and anaconda and easy_install and 2.x vs 3.x still lingering (Macs) and type hints or not and list comprehensions being incomprehensible etc and the use of indentation for scoping leading to frequent errors from people learning (I never understood why indentation was cited as a good thing for learners - please go run a "teach kids to code" class one day and you'll spend 50% of your time fixing indentation errors in their code!) Javascript is everywhere on every device with a browser - if you can load a web page, you can start coding in javascript right away. No install needed - you have a REPL right in your browser. Granted, NPM is a mess but that is not mandatory and it is still perfectly possible to write & ship modern production JS code without NPM or build-steps being involved. Modern JS is very powerful, and if you can stomach a build-step TS makes it even better.