Showerthought: I was wrong about Python over JavaScript for my first project...

I spent 3 months learning JavaScript for a personal site and kept getting stuck on async stuff... then my buddy said 'just try Python for the backend logic' and I finally got why simplicity matters. Has anyone else switched languages midway and felt like they wasted time?

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faith_king1d ago

The whole "wasted time" thing doesn't really land for me. Learning async JavaScript made you better at understanding how computers actually handle multiple things at once, even if Python felt easier later on. Python's simplicity is nice but it hides a lot of the messy real world stuff that JS forces you to deal with straight away. Struggling through callbacks and promises probably saved you from making bigger mistakes down the road. That frustration was the learning, not a detour. You didn't waste time you built a foundation.

miles_roberts1d ago

Have you ever tried debugging callback hell at 2am and realized it taught you more than any tutorial ever could?

parker18315h ago

Built a foundation" he says, while my foundation is held together with 2am console.logs.