[danenania]

Agreed. Javascript certainly has more sharp edges, but if you stick to the good parts (or better, use Typescript) and throw in an fp library like Ramda, it's a lot more nimble for working with complex data structures than Python imho. And leveraging concurrency is of course much easier in Node-land too, especially since async/await have become standard fare. That said, Python has some great features (list comprehensions are awesome) and tons of great libraries, so it's still a solid choice for many use cases in spite of its data-wrangling limitations.