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Pros of JavaScript
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Pros of Python
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    Can be used on frontend/backend
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    It's everywhere
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    Lots of great frameworks
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    Fast
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    Light weight
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    Flexible
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    You can't get a device today that doesn't run js
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    Non-blocking i/o
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    Ubiquitousness
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    Expressive
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    Extended functionality to web pages
  • 49
    Relatively easy language
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    Executed on the client side
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    Relatively fast to the end user
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    Pure Javascript
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    Functional programming
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    Async
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    Full-stack
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    Future Language of The Web
  • 12
    Its everywhere
  • 12
    Setup is easy
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    Because I love functions
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    JavaScript is the New PHP
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    Like it or not, JS is part of the web standard
  • 9
    Expansive community
  • 9
    Everyone use it
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    Can be used in backend, frontend and DB
  • 9
    Easy
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    For the good parts
  • 8
    Powerful
  • 8
    Can be used both as frontend and backend as well
  • 8
    No need to use PHP
  • 8
    Easy to hire developers
  • 8
    Most Popular Language in the World
  • 7
    Its fun and fast
  • 7
    Hard not to use
  • 7
    Versitile
  • 7
    Nice
  • 7
    It's fun
  • 7
    Popularized Class-Less Architecture & Lambdas
  • 7
    Agile, packages simple to use
  • 7
    Supports lambdas and closures
  • 7
    Love-hate relationship
  • 7
    Photoshop has 3 JS runtimes built in
  • 7
    Evolution of C
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    Can be used on frontend/backend/Mobile/create PRO Ui
  • 6
    Easy to make something
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    It let's me use Babel & Typescript
  • 6
    1.6K Can be used on frontend/backend
  • 6
    Client side JS uses the visitors CPU to save Server Res
  • 5
    Scope manipulation
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    Clojurescript
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    Everywhere
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    What to add
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    Promise relationship
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    Stockholm Syndrome
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    Function expressions are useful for callbacks
  • 5
    Client processing
  • 4
    Only Programming language on browser
  • 4
    Because it is so simple and lightweight
  • 1
    Test2
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    Hard to learn
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    Subskill #4
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    Not the best
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    Easy to learn and test
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    Easy to understand
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    Easy to learn
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    Test
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      Great libraries
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      Readable code
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      Beautiful code
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      Rapid development
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      Large community
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      Open source
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      Elegant
    • 282
      Great community
    • 273
      Object oriented
    • 221
      Dynamic typing
    • 77
      Great standard library
    • 60
      Very fast
    • 55
      Functional programming
    • 51
      Easy to learn
    • 46
      Scientific computing
    • 35
      Great documentation
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      Productivity
    • 28
      Easy to read
    • 28
      Matlab alternative
    • 24
      Simple is better than complex
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      It's the way I think
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      Imperative
    • 18
      Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
    • 18
      Free
    • 17
      Powerfull language
    • 17
      Machine learning support
    • 16
      Fast and simple
    • 14
      Scripting
    • 12
      Explicit is better than implicit
    • 11
      Ease of development
    • 10
      Clear and easy and powerfull
    • 9
      Unlimited power
    • 8
      Import antigravity
    • 8
      It's lean and fun to code
    • 7
      Print "life is short, use python"
    • 7
      Python has great libraries for data processing
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      Rapid Prototyping
    • 6
      Readability counts
    • 6
      Now is better than never
    • 6
      Great for tooling
    • 6
      Flat is better than nested
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      Although practicality beats purity
    • 6
      I love snakes
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      High Documented language
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      There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
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      Fast coding and good for competitions
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      Web scraping
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      Lists, tuples, dictionaries
    • 5
      Great for analytics
    • 4
      Easy to setup and run smooth
    • 4
      Easy to learn and use
    • 4
      Plotting
    • 4
      Beautiful is better than ugly
    • 4
      Multiple Inheritence
    • 4
      Socially engaged community
    • 4
      Complex is better than complicated
    • 4
      CG industry needs
    • 4
      Simple and easy to learn
    • 3
      It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
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      Flexible and easy
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      Many types of collections
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      If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
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      If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
    • 3
      Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
    • 3
      Pip install everything
    • 3
      List comprehensions
    • 3
      No cruft
    • 3
      Generators
    • 3
      Import this
    • 3
      Powerful language for AI
    • 2
      Can understand easily who are new to programming
    • 2
      Should START with this but not STICK with This
    • 2
      A-to-Z
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      Because of Netflix
    • 2
      Only one way to do it
    • 2
      Better outcome
    • 2
      Batteries included
    • 2
      Good for hacking
    • 2
      Securit
    • 1
      Procedural programming
    • 1
      Best friend for NLP
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      Slow
    • 1
      Automation friendly
    • 1
      Sexy af
    • 0
      Ni
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      Keep it simple
    • 0
      Powerful

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    Cons of JavaScript
    Cons of PowerShell
    Cons of Python
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      A constant moving target, too much churn
    • 20
      Horribly inconsistent
    • 15
      Javascript is the New PHP
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      No ability to monitor memory utilitization
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      Shows Zero output in case of ANY error
    • 7
      Thinks strange results are better than errors
    • 6
      Can be ugly
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      No GitHub
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      Slow
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      HORRIBLE DOCUMENTS, faulty code, repo has bugs
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        Still divided between python 2 and python 3
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        Performance impact
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        Poor syntax for anonymous functions
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        GIL
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        Package management is a mess
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        Too imperative-oriented
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        Hard to understand
      • 12
        Dynamic typing
      • 12
        Very slow
      • 8
        Indentations matter a lot
      • 8
        Not everything is expression
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        Incredibly slow
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        Explicit self parameter in methods
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        Requires C functions for dynamic modules
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        Poor DSL capabilities
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        No anonymous functions
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        Fake object-oriented programming
      • 5
        Threading
      • 5
        The "lisp style" whitespaces
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        Official documentation is unclear.
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        Hard to obfuscate
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        Circular import
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        Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
      • 4
        The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
      • 4
        Not suitable for autocomplete
      • 2
        Meta classes
      • 1
        Training wheels (forced indentation)

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      What is JavaScript?

      JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

      What is PowerShell?

      A command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET. Helps system administrators and power-users rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS, and Windows) and processes.

      What is Python?

      Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

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      TypeScript
      TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
      Node.js
      Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
      Dart
      Dart is a cohesive, scalable platform for building apps that run on the web (where you can use Polymer) or on servers (such as with Google Cloud Platform). Use the Dart language, libraries, and tools to write anything from simple scripts to full-featured apps.
      CoffeeScript
      It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Specific additional features include list comprehension and de-structuring assignment.
      Java
      Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!
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