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I never thought I'd say it, but I'm loving programming the new ES2105 version of JavaScript. It really has a great deal in common with Python now. Clearly many programming languages are converging as they implement common good ideas from other programming languages. That's going to mean that whilst Python might have distinguished itself in the past for being streets ahead, in the future it's likely that many languages will also have many of those same good ideas incorporated.

I posted about it:

What language has decorators, generators, comprehensions, modules, but isn't Python?

http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/what-language-...

> I never thought I'd say it, but I'm loving programming the new ES2105 version of JavaScript.

Well, yeah, I'm sure ES2105 is cool, but most of us don't have the choice of using languages from the next century.

You mean yavascript?

  > What language has decorators, generators, comprehensions, modules, but isn't Python?

Clojure, Haskell. :-)

The "all async" model of Node kills it for practical programming compared to Python...

And the worst thing is, Node/v8's JIT would kill Python in performance for a;; the kind of things people write Python scripts for, even if it run all synchronous.

It would be nice if callbacks/promises/async-await were only optional and for network/web things, not for everything.

async/await isn't too bad (es7 via babel)

You can still use the "-Sync" versions of functions in the standard lib.

Yes, but not hundreds of thousands of npm libs.

The difference between python an javascript wasn't in features, it was always about predictability. I can pick out errors and expected behavior in python much more easily then javascript, and unless it breaks compatibility at some point, I suspect it will stay that way.

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