Comment by orangecat

Python has been my favorite language for many years, while the last few months at work I've been writing a lot of JavaScript. I've found that JS has exactly one advantage over Python, which is usable function literals. And that turns out to have a surprisingly large impact. It's convenient and natural to create "anonymous classes" that use closures to store their state, while in Python you'd have to manually create classes and manually copy the variables in __init__. I really wish Python could gain something like that while retaining its many advantages.