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>If people didn’t like JavaScript for front end work, it’s not like they could just switch to python

Sure you could. You can develop for the web in practically any language you like these days. People use JavaScript because it has native support for the DOM that nothing else can match. Until we get away from the DOM for application development, it will always be king.

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That has nothing to do with Javascript's merits as a language though. It's simply the only language browsers expose the DOM to natively.

>That has nothing to do with Javascript's merits as a language though.

Sure it does. DOM support is built into the very core of JS as a language, and that has shaped the entire history of its' development and subsequent API choices. It's not just a library that it happens to support, the way it would be with any other language.

Try to debug that nightmare. Usually you'll need to debug compiled code.

Do sourcemaps not help? I’m not experienced with python to js, but they help with minified js

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