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Agreed. I’ve always felt that the following sums up why Python is my preferred language:

Python is the second-best language for everything.

With the big, big, notable exception: targeting the browser.

To be perfectly fair, unless you count WASM or other compiles-to-JS-but-not-quite-native langs (which, outside TS, are pretty niche), this is the case with literally every language except JS.

> unless you count WASM or other compiles-to-JS-but-not-quite-native langs

As a happy user of clojurescript, or seeing the popularity and adoption rate of typescript, I do not count them out.

JavaScript and it’s variants are 1st place for the browser (shoe in on a technicality) ... but like 213th for everything else.

Not counting them out either, but outside TS, they're still quite marginal, at best.

Possibly not for long: https://www.brython.info/

Brython has been around since 2014.

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