I actually quite like Javascript, especially for its speed. However, the major obstacle to me is that JS is locked in web development. It even does not have a s

I actually quite like Javascript, especially for its speed. However, the major obstacle to me is that JS is locked in web development. It even does not have a standardized module to read files line by line, let alone other system-level stuffs. One of the (small) reasons that python is not used in web browsers is the lack of speed.