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My developer friends do have opinions on JavaScript that are in my view outdated, modern JavaScript is my favorite peogramming language due to the ease of expressivenesss and joy to write it. I started out with C, C++, Java, Objective-C and C# before ever seriously using JavaScript (other than tiny snippets of front end browser dom manipulation) and may be I’m just getting old but... I’d love to use JavaScript for everything if I could.

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I find swift and python to be more elegant in terms of expressiveness. Only issue with swift is that it's ABI isn't stable yet and still not official support for windows (I think, will need to check this).

My eyes see the curly brackets easier than indents for scope probably because of my background and I forget the colons sometimes but yeah Python is a usually a pleasure too

At this point the only thing I feel like I'm left missing from Python in semicolon-free ES2015+/Typescript are list/generator-comprehension syntax [0] and slice notation [1].

[0] The Pipeline Operator Stage 1 proposal is currently the closest proposal to making something like that happen: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator

[1] Stage 1 Proposal: https://github.com/gsathya/proposal-slice-notation/

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