Benefits of developing with JavaScript

Many different types of applications can be developed with it

• Web applications
• Modern browsers support it natively.
• Node.js can be used for server applications.
• Mobile applications with Cordova.
• Desktop applications with Electron.

A developed programming language

• Support for the most popular programming paradigms
  • Object-oriented programming
  • Functional programming
• A big ecosystem.
• Many packages, tools and libraries available via NPM and GitHub.
• Supported by many big companies.
• Very good documentation. MDN provides very good documentation.

Summary

When one chooses to focus on one programming language, JavaScript seems to be a good option in many cases. For machine learning, Python seems to be the best option.