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Wiktor Wiśniewski • Edited

Before I get hit by argument such as:

but you know world doesn't end on making GUI?

Sure, but I think this is what newbies want to do - make something more interactive than terminal if-else game :)

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Peyton McGinnis • Edited

I mostly agreed with you up until your last point. Of course it's a bit more difficult to write a GUI in Java or Python, because JavaScript is designed for building user interfaces.

In the same way, I could say, "try building an efficient machine learning algorithm in JavaScript instead of Python", because Python is designed for data science.

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Wiktor Wiśniewski

You are right, I knew my example wasn't the best! We are talking about learning curve here and I believe that doing anything in a scripting language is easier than in high-level language if you are a beginner and you don't have special requirements.

Python is probably an exception - I don't know, I don't have much experience with python. I tried to learn it but I'm not into data science and all I wanted to do was possible with node.js :P.

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Peyton McGinnis • Edited

Ok, I gotcha, and with that I'd mostly agree.

And same! I've never had to touch Python much, I pretty much use Vue + MongoDB for everything nowadays. 😂