I don’t think the answer is that easy. Python is typically run on the server and JavaScript is client-side, which means that the incentives are aligned to optimize Python rather than JavaScript. I think investment in each follows and the difference is more that JavaScript runs in an isolated environment with a more flexible runtime.
Nah although his answer wasn’t exactly what I’m looking for he’s not wrong. Python is not optimized because on the backend you just switch to another language that’s faster. That’s the economically optimized thing to do. Can’t do that on the frontend.
