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> We need more Python slander. It annoys me to no end when people trash JavaScript as if it was some exception in bad language design.

Python's file system support across platforms is notoriously problematic or even outright broken. Wasn't this enough reason to put it lower in the quality bar than JavaScript?

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JavaScript doesn’t even have file system support.. each runtime has its own tacked on implementation in the relevant “standard” library. Now which is notoriously problematic?

> JavaScript doesn’t even have file system support..

https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html

node is a js runtime, not the official spec, you make no point in refuting the above.

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