JavaScript or Python?

VolcanoMan said:

You act like you built 5 different things when all I see here is 5 different web scrapers.

I could write anything in assembly too but you don't see anyone doing that.

Web scrapers can be done easily in literally any language people is today.

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Nope, the bots do no just scrape the data, but do different things.

Tell me, why would someone chose JavaScript over Python. Python is much easier to learn. Python keeps syntax nice and clean. Learning curve is far shortener with Python.

And one more thing, I've never said to completely avoid JavaScript.

BTW: I made a bar for Qtile as well

Mactronn said:

Nope, the bots do no just scrape the data, but do different things.

Tell me, why would someone chose JavaScript over Python. Python is much easier to learn. Python keeps syntax nice and clean. Learning curve is far shortener with Python

BTW: I made a bar for Qtile as well

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That's called clean code and maybe you want to have a framework, but I might be wrong cause some dudes are diehard vanilla, raw database query boys who do everything with requests on their 2 mb RAM server to make sure they don't waste any resources (and time to learn js syntax!).

reaaski said:

That's called clean code and maybe you want to have a framework, but I might be wrong cause some dudes are diehard vanilla, raw database query boys who do everything with requests on their 2 mb RAM server to make sure they don't waste any resources (and time to learn js syntax!).

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Mate, you didn't answered my questions.

To understand frameworks you need understand the basics of JavaScript... So learning curve will be quite long.

Just write everything in C++ and don't use any Frameworks or libraries as those are for amateurs.

You need to be able to execute .00000001 ms faster than anyone else to win the code wars.

JS started out being used for the web. It is better for manipulating the DOM and building frontends. JS is good for full stack as well because there is solid
backend solutions as well. All in one language.

Scraping and automation goes to Python I'd say - in large part due to the concise syntax.

It really depends what you want to do with it. Figure that out first and you will save yourself some time in getting closer to your goal. Research what people are
using to build what it is you are interested in. Or you could end up building React apps or practicing memory management in C++ when it's not even part of
what you really want to do.

Javascript is more for web development while python is excellent for making bots.

In the modern age you should learn both, learning one or the other doesn't matter. You should be easily be able transition between the two, and other modern scripting languages with ease.

Both are great to learn.