alt Hacker News3 reasons why Python is much better than JS for this IMO.
1. Large built-in standard library (CSV, sqlite3, xml/json, zipfile).
2. In Python, whatever the LLM is likely to do will probably work. In JS, you have the Node / Deno split, far too many libraries that do the same thing (XMLHTTPRequest / Axios / fetch), many mutually-incompatible import syntaxes (E.G. compare tsx versus Node's native ts execution), and features like top-level await (very important for small scripts, and something that an LLM is likely to use!), which only work if you pray three times on the day of the full moon.
3. Much better ecosystem for data processing (particularly csv/pandas), partially resulting from operator overloading being a thing.
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In Python you also have plenty of implementations to choose from, incidentally many of them have evem better performance than CPython.
>In Python, whatever the LLM is likely to do will probably work.
Do you not realize how this sounds?
>many mutually-incompatible import syntaxes
Do you think there are 22 competing package managers in python because the package/import system "just works"?
> In JS, you have the Node / Deno split,
You do? Deno is maybe a single digit percentage of the market, just hyped tremendously.
> E.G. compare tsx versus Node's native ts execution
JSX/TSX, despite what React people might want you to believe, are not part of the language.
> which only work if you pray three times on the day of the full moon.
It only doesn't work in some contexts due to legacy reasons. Otherwise it's just elaborate syntax sugar for `Promise`.