New runtimes like NodeJS have expanded JS beyond web, and JS's syntax has improved the past several years. But before that happened, Python on its own was way easier for non-web scripts, web servers, and math/science/ML/etc. Optimized native libs and ecosystems for those things got built a lot earlier around Python, in some cases before NodeJS even existed.
Python's syntax is still nicer for mathy stuff, to the point where I'd go into job coding interviews using Python despite having used more JS lately. And I'm comparing to JS because it's the closest thing, while others like Java are/were far more cumbersome for these uses.
Python's syntax is still nicer for mathy stuff, to the point where I'd go into job coding interviews using Python despite having used more JS lately. And I'm comparing to JS because it's the closest thing, while others like Java are/were far more cumbersome for these uses.