[tharne]

I don't see the point of this. You already have a ubiquitous, easy-to-learn, high-level language that's great for data science, it's called python. If you're a JavaScript developer who wants to get into data science but are too lazy to learn python, you probably weren't that interested in data science in the first place.

Python definitely has some problems, but if you were going to have a new lingua franca for data science, it would probably be something like Julia, certainly not JavaScript.

[javierluraschi]

My hunch is that there has been 10X more investment in engineering for JavaScript: nodejs, webassembly, webgl, webgpu, react native, deno, typescript, electron, chrome, etc. That will be harder to rewrite in Python than to rewrite TensorFlow and a few math libraries in JavaScript.