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		cageface on July 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional prog... I'd recommend JavaScript unless you want to do something that python is specifically good for like machine learning. JavaScript has its own issues but it's not hard to learn and is used everywhere.

itsjzt on July 8, 2020 [–]

What brought me javascript from python was:

- functions were defined with `function` keyword instead of `def`

- variables were declared with `var`

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