> Whenever you reach out to the community, you’re rarely met with more opinions than you have fingers
One looks like a large and fast-progressing area, the other like a smaller and more cohesive area. JS/TS ecosystems made a lot of breathtaking progress in the last 15 years. It has a price: trying all the new approaches to find a better path means a huge breadth and fragmentation of the mindshare.
Not that Python hasn't made a lot of progress in the same 15 years, but, frankly, it's not as varied and novel, even with the advent of gradual typing and async support in the language.
Stability may sound and even feel good, but being stuck with targeting IE6 or C89 is also stability. Both stability and progress have upsides and downsides, there's no absolute winner, and you have (and, importantly, can) choose the balance you're more comfortable with.
> Whenever you reach out to the community, you’re rarely met with more opinions than you have fingers
One looks like a large and fast-progressing area, the other like a smaller and more cohesive area. JS/TS ecosystems made a lot of breathtaking progress in the last 15 years. It has a price: trying all the new approaches to find a better path means a huge breadth and fragmentation of the mindshare.
Not that Python hasn't made a lot of progress in the same 15 years, but, frankly, it's not as varied and novel, even with the advent of gradual typing and async support in the language.
Stability may sound and even feel good, but being stuck with targeting IE6 or C89 is also stability. Both stability and progress have upsides and downsides, there's no absolute winner, and you have (and, importantly, can) choose the balance you're more comfortable with.