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in the case of python: "better is better" ;)

As in "very slow though flexible is better".

I get why you are saying an interpreted language is slow but given that people use python to orchestrate most compute intense (AI) and data-heavy (data science) work, it obviously does a pretty excellent job of being pretty 'fast' in practice - ie offloading the 'slow' bits to dedicated code.

as it stands right now, python is more complex and has worse type system comparing to typescript. It has all of javascript warts and more (those confusing underscore methods, GIL, pyproject.toml is only now standardized).

The good things about python have nothing to do with the language, it's the ecosystem and standard library (which is still not as good as, say, java's). So I'm not quite sure why people say javascript THE LANGUAGE is bad, but python the language is "better".

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