alt Hacker NewsI'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.
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You've probably just gotten used to it so you don't notice it anymore: https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython
(Note some of these are outdated, but some of those only mention that towards the end of the section rather than the beginning)
11 years ago sure. Then the classes they added were syntactical sugar. Observable was never part of JS, it's from the rxjs lib that I avoided cause yeah it's spaghetti.
In about the same timeline, Py went from threading to async-await, which created classic blocking vs nonblocking mismatches. The whole 2 to 3 breaking migration was also still a big deal in 2015.