>Javascript got popular because it was the only option to program for the web. That's it. If it wasn't as flexible as it was, another language would have taken

>Javascript got popular because it was the only option to program for the web. That's it. If it wasn't as flexible as it was, another language would have taken it over. >Python and other dynamic languages don't "automatically manage types", they just let you not write the types down in the code. They do. They carry dynamic type information during runtime, and can be modified during runtime. >What you're describing is just magic compared to what we can do in 2023. Then you must think that stuff like branch prediction, and compiler optimizations are magic as well.