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Python vs JavaScriptPython vs JavaScriptPosted Apr 4, 2013 7:04 UTC (Thu) by sayap (guest, #71380)In reply to: Python vs JavaScript by man_ls Parent article: PyCon: Evangelizing Python
> To this day the default packages carried by Debian and Mac OS X (the two operating systems I use) are 2.x, so there is little incentive to upgrade most libraries.
Debian Python maintainer is not very good at his job: http://lwn.net/Articles/496335/ Be grateful that you even have Python 2.7. Also, a quick Google search shows that MacPorts has packages for Python3.
> On to the subject of the non-rivality with JavaScript: the PyPI has currently 29444 vs 26256 for npm
You are comparing a "batteries included" language with one that doesn't have a standard library.
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Python vs JavaScript Posted Apr 4, 2013 7:52 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] You are comparing a "batteries included" language with one that doesn't have a standard library.True for JavaScript, but node.js does a good job of supporting a fair standard library.
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