Wrong-headed
But where does that leave JavaScript? Like Python, it been at the forefront of web development for about 20 years
For most of that time they've been doing very different things. And, while I'm a Python fan, I don't think it would be correct to claim Python has been at the forefront of web development at all.
Python is more suited to machine learning than Javascript because of the eco-system and libraries that have grown up in the scientific community over the years. Python isn't great for machine learning because there are TensorFlow bindings but because there is NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, etc. Python's syntax is also very popular with the non-developer types, who've suddenly found themselves being classed as "data scientists". This combined with the extensive libraries of a general purpose language makes Python eminently suitable. Node.js simply can't compete in this area and why should it? It's great for some stuff though its existence is now threatened by the agreement of the major browser developers to support web assembly. An article on this would have been far more interesting than the collection of straw men in this article.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
