alt Hacker NewsThere are certainly weird things about it, but they're all things you can ignore especially in modern times, whereas in Python you're constantly dealing with it head-on.
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Ah yes, nowdays it is even easier, but "Javascript, the good parts" came out 18 years ago already.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/javascript-the-good/978...
Helped me get a more pragmatic approach to use that chaotic mess of a language and environment. Just use what works, ignore the rest (but I also ignored some specific advice from the book and used what worked for me).
I'm not sure what world you live in but I remember quite well when prototypical inheritance was The Way in JS to do object-oriented programming. Then they copied the C#/Java syntax for classes. Then they aded a bunch of reactivity with Observable with a ton of quirks.
Every single new, large feature in JS has been full of quirks. The same cannot be said for Python; the exceptions are few and far between and more often than not they're not actually exceptions but rather something bound to core language fundamentals which once understood don't present a challenge because there is an actual underlying consistency.
Totally agreed there, Python is my main language nowadays because of work but the inconsistencies and lack of some very easy to add syntactic sugar to cover up some of the ugliness (like your example above) in a backward compatible way is constantly irksome and keeps me from really loving my most used tool.