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I may be the odd one out, but for me node.js (and hopefully in the future Deno) isn't about the backend, but instead it's a pretty nice scripting environment for tooling and automation. I've been using mainly Python for this in the past, but got burned out quite a bit by the python2=>3 transition.

(but still: don't underestimate the raw performance of V8, for many things it's definitely good enough)




I completely understand what you're saying, but Python is a lot better now. You don't have to worry about Python 2 anymore and the tooling is a lot better as well (Black, Flake8, Poetry are all really nice).




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