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I’d agree, but I wonder how much faster writing a backend API in Django is compared to using node.

I’ve written a lot of python outside of the web space and a lot of JavaScript in the web space and I can’t think of a time I wish I was writing in python.

Modern JavaScript has a really expressive syntax without the runtime performance hit.

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For every comment like this, there is someone who would say the opposite. Why would I write in a language with the semantics of javascript when I could use python?

I'd also argue that syntax-wise they are virtually the same language and not worth really comparing. It's not like either is ML.

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