Many articles state JavaScript is possibly going to follow Python as it grows. Both languages are easy to read and code. Both languages have a rich feature set. Backward compatibility of JavaScript has been very solid as Python has. Both languages are powerful enough to handle today's scripting. Although I have trouble comparing the two since on is server side and one is client side or at least I never saw Python used in HTML source readable by the client.

Python is a programming language first released in 1991. Python is created for easy readability with the developer in mind. Python has a large library and its core is very simplistic.

JavaScript is a scripting language used in client side web page development. It is very easy to code and there are many examples found on the net.

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