Which Language is Best for a Passionate Software Engineer?......(Javascript or Python)

Question

Am confused 😕;

Answer 1

I think both also is an advantage too....

Answer 2

I think python will be best option...as I've heared python have a lots of application an it's quite easy... while javascript have limited application...viz., mainly in web development... while python can be used for all round purpose...

Answer 3

JavaScript for beginning, but python ain't that hard. Has short lines of code compared to languages like java

Answer 4

If you can't decide, why not both?

Answer 5

Thank Martin....let me start python too

Answer 6

JavaScript is not that limited.
You can do front end (For PWAs you have Angular, React, Vue.js, Svelte, etc) and back end (Node.js or Deno), native apps for all major platforms (With Electron and Ionic), IoT, robotics...
You can also do things like machine learning, but it's better to use Python if you already know it (It has better performance basically)

Answer 7

Good luck, I'm learning the same languages as you! Can you mark my first comment as the answer of the post btw? Thanks :D

Answer 8

Javascript is mainly and originally used for client side web development but also growing in other fields like web servers.
Python is more of a general purpose language but is used a lot in data science.

So it really depends on where you want to go

Answer 9

If you can't decide, just do both courses to get a better idea. They don't take a long time and the basic concepts like control structures, arrays/lists arithmetic operations etc. are the same anyway (in any programming language)