[ibebrett]

Just out of curiosity why? I personally can't imagine why someone would choose it as a favorite. Not because I think it is bad, but because I feel its kind of a kitchen sink language that doesn't really have any clear advantages or features.

[eropple]

In short: because it doesn't make me think about it, freeing me up to think about the problem, and gets out of my way. You're right in that it's a kitchen-sink language, but IMO it's a well-curated one, and I don't find myself having to think about patterns or other crap as I do when using Java (which I've used professionally) or wrestling with poor tooling and spooky-action-at-a-distance language design in Scala (ditto--and I like Scala, but for a lot of things it just won't get out of my way).

Reasonable people can disagree, of course.