Don't use Python then. Prefer a language that has compilers targeting Javascript instead. Candidates that I have tried: Clojure & Scala. And I'm sure there are

Don't use Python then. Prefer a language that has compilers targeting Javascript instead. Candidates that I have tried: Clojure & Scala. And I'm sure there are others. People don't talk that much about it because Javascript being used as a compilation target is a fairly new trend.