If the question is "why choose Python" or "why choose JavaScript", then I think you're missing the point. Python is simple and beautiful and highly productive to work in. JavaScript is ostensibly the only language that you can use in the browser without a compilation step (to JavaScript). Just because typing is added separately doesn't negate all of the other benefits of these languages. Hell, if all programmers cared about was type safety we'd all be writing Rust for every project.
> If the question is "why choose Python" or "why choose JavaScript", then I think you're missing the point. Python is simple and beautiful and highly productive to work in.
Well, it depends on the problem! If you’re working with a lot of data structures, or with bytes and serialization, compiled system languages with static typing are going to be productivity boosts over python. Languages aren’t everything, but there are definitely poor language/problem space fits.
> If you’re working with a lot of data structures, or with bytes and serialization, compiled system languages with static typing are going to be productivity boosts over python.
Python has fantastic, expressive and productive libraries for those kind of problems. Unless you have some performance issue, I can't see how you are going to be faster than that.
