Picked Python over JavaScript for my first real project and actually don't regret it

Everyone told me I had to learn JavaScript first because "that's what the web runs on" but I went with Python instead for a data scraping thing last month and it took me like 3 days to get working instead of weeks. Has anyone else started with the "wrong" language and had it work out better for them?

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grant.felix5d ago

Started messing with Python for a tiny web scraper and ended up building a whole automation bot that saved my buddy's small business like forty hours a week. Nobody told me Python could handle that kind of heavy lifting outside of data science stuff.

the_jennifer4d ago

Take that little win and run with it. Business owners are drowning in repetitive tasks that eat up their whole day, and most of them have no idea a few dozen lines of code could fix it. The tricky part is keeping the bot simple enough to maintain when the owner or his buddy wants to tweak something later. I've seen folks build these amazing scripts, then they break in six months because nobody wrote down how they worked. If you ever share that code, maybe add some plain-English notes so the next person isn't staring at it like a foreign language.