JavaScript vs Python: Which do you NEED?

[@Walker-ky9vy]

If you're more interested in web development or working on the front end, go with JavaScript. If you're leaning towards data analysis, machine learning, or backend development, Python might be the better choice.

[@madjunir]

If you want to become full stack learn both

[@Destide]

I think python is great if you don't understand programming syntax and want to learn as you write. I liked how learning python also forced me to move onto other languages when I started running into limitations. If I started with JS I feel like I would have just stuck with JS and it's frameworks. I'm learning JS finally because it's so good at frontend and that will be my place for it while I learn GO for the backend. Right tool right job.

[@ulrich-tonmoy]

only if we get these python library in npm and voila now js rule both ai and web 🤣

[@maxz999]

I paused to read the zen of python and I love it!

[@KodapsAcademy]

Yeah it’s quite quirky here and there :)

[@AlemMemić]

Both of them are frontend languages, JavaScript for Web and Python for Data Science.

[@KodapsAcademy]

That's pushing the definition of "frontend" a bit further than the word allows for :)

[@l0gic23]

​@@KodapsAcademy what about PyScript, Flask, Reflex, etc? (I only think i know that they exist - I really know nothing more...)

[@KodapsAcademy]

Sure,, my point is that Data science is not really Frontend by any stretch of the word (I’d go for Streamlit if I wanted a front end environment in python :))

[@AlemMemić]

@@KodapsAcademy I am Data Scientist and mathematician over 6 years...I can say that whatever library in Data Science you study, you will find C or C++ or something else, but not pure Python. That is the reason why I said that Python is just frontend, because in backend you have C, C++, Rust or whatever else...Python is just there like frontend for Data Science. In backend you have other languages.

[@KodapsAcademy]

Yeah Python exposes the C API, sure. That's the whole point of a scripting language :) But generally speaking when we talk about frontend development, we mean creating user interfaces not application programming interfaces :) (And my formal training was in Data Science and Math too, in a french school called ENSAE :) )