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Also, Go can actually be quite annoying

What form of crack have you been consuming, OP?

Aside from pointing out you're intentionally misinterpreting the context of the word "embedded", here's two embedded-device embeddable implementations off the top of my head:
For esp8266, esp32, pyboard, micro:bit, probably some other embedded boards
64k bytes implementation of most of Python

Well not everyone has your experiences. Python is 100% the most used language for beginner courses the world over, and when you have students that become very familiar with it for a few years it will be their natural go to for any scripting purposes. It was designed to look as clean and easy to read as possible, it can be OOP and it doesn't use pointers, so it's easy to teach. There aren't any glaring issues with it's design since most python programs are at most a couple hundred lines dealing with simple text based data manipulation any bitching about slowness or bad garbage collection are moot. It's a glove that's a perfect fit for it's intended audience.

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You better not use slow as an argument when searching for an alternative to Python. Honestly, the only thing I use in the bunch I mentionned in sh + awk, and it indeed needs great knowledge to build something not too shabby.

tcc + C, unironically. Or common lisp.

Awk is waaaay faster than python.

If you write your shell scripts as "glue scripts" for running awk, they run pretty damn quickly.

First python has been around for over a decade, more on the the side of two. If you /knew/ python you'd know that the syntax lends itself to data analysis. Libuv has only been worth while recently.

Not to mention ubiquity. Python is found in probably every distro as a standard scripting platform. Node.js? Not so much.

Then look at pip/virtualenv versus npm. This is where I go, "Neck yourself."

Finally Cython. Integrating a performant computational module in Python is far easier than Node.

Syntax is another reason, with all the truthy bullshit in JS, its horrendous for scientific purposes. Python has already developed specific constructs for typed structures (check out numpy).

Finally all the infrastructure and support for computational and data analysis already exists for python. Scikit-learn, matplotlib, numpy, numba, etc. etc.

Parallelism is also alot easier with Python than with javascript without all the restrictions of webworkers or piping through different processes.

You are a massive faggot, QED.

Fuck off back to /g/

Depends on what you're used to and what background you have. But in general, yes dynamically typed languages tend to be less annoying to beginners who were taught the "a variable is like a box" stuff.