@y0x3y@hackers.town @f0x I'd say that the stand-out differences for me are:
- Conflict-free dependency management
- As a result, many purpose-specific tools with high interoperability across the JS ecosystem, instead of a few big frameworks that all have their own incompatible ecosystem
- The language is a lot more functional-ish than most popular languages (which allows for writing very readable code when used correctly), but without being restrictive about it - you can still do OOP where it makes sense
- Because of the high degree of interoperability/composability of things, it's much easier to work with JS than with most other languages when you have strange projects/usecases that nobody has built some specialized framework for yet, just by mixing-and-matching existing pieces