Performance-wise, JavaScript is a bit faster than Python since the former uses node.js and is built in Chrome V8. JavaScript is also better for applications that require real-time dynamic interaction.

It’s spiffy and convenient, but most everyone who uses Python knows it’s comparatively creaky — orders of magnitude slower than C, Java, or JavaScript for CPU-intensive work. But several ...

JS2Py converts JavaScript to Python, as the name implies, using a pure-Python conversion engine. It has official support only for ES5 right now, although there’s experimental ES6 support for the ...

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

WebAssembly has taken the world by storm thanks to its promise of bringing the performance of native applications to the web, to the level that isn’t possible with JavaScript.

Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub; Snowflake wrestles Python, chases China, and ingests unstructured data; About half of Python libraries in PyPI may have ...